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Re:Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of ... by Jedd on Friday October 28, 2022 @09:23PM (#33380009)
Even with 'one every thousand or so' (which feels like a fantastically speculative number) the law of big numbers suggests this does not, in fact, 'answer the Fermi paradox'.

FWIW my (comparably uninformed by more than one data point) money is on mitochondria.

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Re:Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of ... by elorant on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:24AM (#33382405)
If you take the Drake equation and start speculating on a conservative way, the one in a thousand galaxies estimation is very probable. It could be mitochondria, or it could be that the universe is still too young to be safe for life on a mass scale. We're just lucky to be one of the first.
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