As the so called Fermi Paradox goes, based on what we know about the universe, there should be plenty of life in it, however there isn't any, and the question is why?
But the problem I see in the framing of this "paradox" is the assumption that we know enough about the universe and biological life.
Yes, it might be true that a lot of places in the universe might have the conditions to sustain life, and may be even advanced civilisations. But sustaining life and producing life isn't the same thing.
After all, what do we know about life? Evolution by natural selection, yes, abiogenesis, not so much. But what is reasonable to assume about the emergence of life, through a process like abiogenesis, is that it's highly highly improbable, though probable enough to happen at least one or two times in a universe as big as ours.
So why is there so little life in the universe, despite the fact that it's so big? Well, because it's rare, but not rare enough to not exist entirely, hence the human race on planet Earth, but rare enough that we probably won't ever find another biological life in the enormity of the cosmos, let alone intelligent life.
We don't need to look for aliens, we are the aliens.
Submitted October 15, 2022 at 07:24AM by spynimal https://ift.tt/ZcqB5YE
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