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Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox by PeterisP on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:49AM (#33406535)
Given that our planet is younger than most planets in our galaxy, and IIRC younger than the average of all the planets which will be in our galaxy, we are the first if and only if we are the only intelligent life which will ever form in our galaxy.

I'd strongly disagree with the notion of "we are only 14B years into a many-trillion-year stretch" - we're at or past the midpoint, half or more of all the possible potential-life-forming-events in our galaxy have already occurred.

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Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox by GolfPopper on Monday October 31, 2022 @01:09PM (#33408928)
>we're at or past the midpoint, half or more of all the possible potential-life-forming-events in our galaxy have already occurred

Caveat: for life that resembles life on Earth.

Admittedly that's the only kind of life we're certain exists, but more or less alien forms of life seem to be at least theoretically possible. (Which gets into whether we'd even recognize each other as life.)

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