mcaballero
16th March 2011, 04:24
Hello everybody:
I was just reading about Fuqkushima, drifted my study toward the history of nuclear reactors, navigated toward the live of Enrico Fermi (which is very interesting), and discovered this. The Fermi Paradox. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Paradox
The stated problem is very simple: "Where is everybody?" (meaning extraterrestials). This was apparently stated in 1950.
I find it so interesting that I decided to copy the main ideas that are cited in the Wikipedia article on it, just for discussion in the context of this Forum.
1 Few, if any, other civilizations currently exist
1.1 No other civilizations have arisen
1.2 It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself
1.3 It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy others
1.4 Life is periodically destroyed by naturally occurring events
1.5 Human beings were created alone
1.6 Inflation theory and the Youngness Argument
2 They do exist, but we see no evidence
2.1 Communication is impossible due to problems of scale
2.1.1 Intelligent civilizations are too far apart in space or time
2.1.2 It is too expensive to spread physically throughout the galaxy
2.1.3 Human beings have not been searching long enough
2.2 Communication is impossible for technical reasons
2.2.1 Humans are not listening properly
2.2.2 Civilizations only broadcast detectable radio signals for a brief period of time
2.2.3 They tend to experience a technological singularity
2.2.4 The evidence is being suppressed
2.3 They choose not to interact with us
2.3.1 It is the nature of intelligent life to keep silent
2.3.2 Earth is purposely isolated (The zoo hypothesis)
2.3.3 It is dangerous to communicate
2.3.4 The Fermi paradox itself is what prevents communication
2.3.5 They are too alien
2.3.6 They are non-technological
2.4 They are here unobserved
I was just reading about Fuqkushima, drifted my study toward the history of nuclear reactors, navigated toward the live of Enrico Fermi (which is very interesting), and discovered this. The Fermi Paradox. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Paradox
The stated problem is very simple: "Where is everybody?" (meaning extraterrestials). This was apparently stated in 1950.
I find it so interesting that I decided to copy the main ideas that are cited in the Wikipedia article on it, just for discussion in the context of this Forum.
1 Few, if any, other civilizations currently exist
1.1 No other civilizations have arisen
1.2 It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself
1.3 It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy others
1.4 Life is periodically destroyed by naturally occurring events
1.5 Human beings were created alone
1.6 Inflation theory and the Youngness Argument
2 They do exist, but we see no evidence
2.1 Communication is impossible due to problems of scale
2.1.1 Intelligent civilizations are too far apart in space or time
2.1.2 It is too expensive to spread physically throughout the galaxy
2.1.3 Human beings have not been searching long enough
2.2 Communication is impossible for technical reasons
2.2.1 Humans are not listening properly
2.2.2 Civilizations only broadcast detectable radio signals for a brief period of time
2.2.3 They tend to experience a technological singularity
2.2.4 The evidence is being suppressed
2.3 They choose not to interact with us
2.3.1 It is the nature of intelligent life to keep silent
2.3.2 Earth is purposely isolated (The zoo hypothesis)
2.3.3 It is dangerous to communicate
2.3.4 The Fermi paradox itself is what prevents communication
2.3.5 They are too alien
2.3.6 They are non-technological
2.4 They are here unobserved