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Re:Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Hav... by CodeCube on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:47AM (#17187574)
I appreciate a good reason to think deeply as much as the next person ... but odds are just that, odds. If we were the result of some freak black swan event that kickstarted "life", the odds of it happening are irrelevant ... because it did.

To be clear, I'm not saying that's what it is ... the fermi paradox is a great thought experiment. But let's just keep things in perspective. Low odds don't mean something won't happen, just like "true random" doesn't mean the same song can't/won't play 10 times in a row ;)

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Re:Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Hav... by emiliobumachar on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:10AM (#17187745)
The troubling thing about the Fermi paradox is that the Great Filter may still be ahead of us.

As in, the universe may be littered with the ruins of single-planet civilizations slightly ahead of our technology level. We may have observed and cataloged many such planets, failing to notice the ruins.

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