Alone in a Crowded Milky Way

Re:Alone in a Crowded Milky Way by ianai on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @11:19AM (#21928657)

I appreciate seeing your comments. The Fermi paradox and these similar ideas seem the modern equivalent to assumptions the sun revolves around the earth. We need more research and infrastructure in this solar system to really progress on this.

Imagine if we had thousands of microsats in orbit around the various planets that we could triangulate data amongst? We need to be more aware of our solar system before we can even make reasoned arguments about life within it alone.

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Re:Alone in a Crowded Milky Way by wongarsu on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @01:07PM (#21929423)

> before we can even make reasoned arguments about life within it alone.

That's an excellent point, for all we know we have intelligent, non-spacefaring life right in our solar system. It's unlikely, but there's still plenty of oceans, gas giant atmospheres and lava tubes that we haven't looked at yet.

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