Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life, or singularity fields? The potential answers to this question are numerous and intriguing, alarming and hopeful.
This brilliant TEDEducation animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox is narrated by Chris Anderson. This animation is part of TED's new series, "Questions no one knows the answer to".
Here is an older video of what Ray Kurzweil thinks about SETI. What do you think? Are we the first intelligent civilization?
Stephen Hawking theorized that we have never been contacted because these intelligent alien civilizations kill themselves off in various ways before they are able to reach a high enough level of technology to accomplish intergalactic travel.
ReplyDeleteThe assumption for the existence of Alien Life is based on the evolution theory: It has happened here, why couldn't it have happened elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteBut what if the evolution theory is nonsense? What if God has created life on Earth only once - as a special project - with humans as the pinnacle of his work?
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DeleteBut evolution theory isn't nonsense, it's well-established. So, no, the magic sky fairy didn't have a special project here. Nice try tho.
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect, evolution is NOT "well-established" at least in reality. Its just another religion a worldview that requires copious amounts of faith in order to beleive that there is NO God.
DeleteIf God created life on earth, why would we think that earth is the only place where he created it? Seems strange. If I was going to create life just for the fun of it to see what happened, I would create it on a whole slew of worlds just to see how the little buggers react and, yes, evolve, differently depending on their surroundings and depending on what kind of ideas I give them and sticks I poke them with periodically. Utilizing my great humor, I may even tell one of them that the male was created in a beautiful garden and the female was created from one of his ribs. Then I might create envy and jealousy and stuff and sit back and have a good laugh.
DeleteVery interesting. Neil deGrass Tyson is great!
ReplyDeleteI personally suppose the reason for this is that no civilization is actually in an intermediate technological state like ours for time long enough to allow meaningful interstellar communication over decades and hundreds of years. Civilizations would evolve out of the use of radio waves before their first-sent signals even reach their destinations, and might become completely imperceptible to our current state of being. Ergo, communication between civilizations will only be possible when some kind of technological limit is reached by both of them, but at this point they will be drastically different from any intelligence as we know it.
ReplyDeleteThere could be many reasons. Perhaps evolution on their planets didn't favor intelligence maybe not even evolving beyond single-celled organisms, crossing off a large percentage of planets possibly supportive of intelligent life. Maybe in others beings didn't progress past the stone age. Maybe they didn't move towards the singularity and became a science-fiction type civilization of big space ships and such. I imagine if a civilization like us who even got this far had to be very rare if almost non-existent.
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