#fermisparadox — Public Fediverse posts
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Beksinski. Life in the universe / Fermi's Paradox.
Each fire is a burning sun.
Each rock is a solar system.
Between the rocks, an impassable void of interstellar travel.
The people hugging the fires are life forms waiting for their suns to die, waiting for extinction.
Wrote it before, but searching here is hard, so I rewrote it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNfh89sO6f0
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The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox by Milan M. Ćirković
Explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies.
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@goodthinking @luckytran the answer to #FermisParadox is we are too selfish and dumb to Contact
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Conquer the Galaxy
While thinking of #FermisParadox, I came across a small exercise of exponential growth.
What if humanity comes up with a canonical plan to go to another star system. We take it conservative and plan for the year 3000 until all technology is in place. Then we set out with a big generation ship to settle in the system of Alpha Centauri.
From then on, we do the same every 1.000 years. With these basic rules in mind, I've tried to calculate how long it would take to conquer the whole milky way. I came across a somehow spheric expansion and took the rather flat geometry of our galaxy into consideration. The result was an exponential factor of 1.0018.
Put it the other way, it would take 15000 iterations to fill the whole galaxy. Or 15 million years. That sounds much - and also not. 15 million years ago, the dinosaurs were already 50 million years history. Yet all these numbers sound pretty conservative considering our current technological progress.