Well, yeah, that *is one* of the potential explanations for the so called Fermi Paradox.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think the great filter as well as the immensity of space and the inability to travel great distances are the explanations. 13.7b years is not a quantity of time to preface with "only"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I saw a really good video on what the future of the universe is going to look like and in that video it said that we might be the first form of intelligent life to have developed in the universe. There might be life in other solar systems but it might not be anything intelligent other than other wildlife here on earth

by Anonymous 2 years ago

# Off in the distance, somewhere out there, I hear the screaming of an insignificant thing. ^(Me: RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE) # Maybe it's just a ringing in my ear.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Time passes faster in other areas of the Universe relative to our existence on Earth. So imo chances are that there are beings far more developed than humans.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I didn't know that time passes faster in other area of the Universe.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Our star (the sun) is not a first generation star. It was formed from the remnants of dead stars - stars with their own planets that had gone through an entire lifecycle of billions of years. There is very little possibility that humans are early in the universe.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

billions of years on what timescale? it sounds massive to our timescale but in the grand scheme of things it could be nothing. I don't know if we're the first but I don't think there is any way for us to difinitively (or even with high chance) say we aren't at least early on.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There have been entire lifecycles of stars and planets that have already happened. For there to be even a chance that we are "early" those full lifecycles of stars would have had to all not have life. The chances of this are astronomically small. Unless we assume that life is rare in general (this is a different fork of the Fermi paradox), then there is no reason for the trillions stars that already lived full lifecycles and already died out due to old age to be less hospitable to life than the current stars. We could possibly work with this hypothesis that humans are early if we were on a first generation star. For the first or early life in the universe to exist on a second generation star would mean that life overall is astronomically rare, meaning that we are exceptional because we are rare, not because we are early.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Super Earths and as previously stated earlier star systems could mean intelligent life could have a one billion year head start on our planet Earth. If we find aliens out there we may be like amoebas to them. These aliens would go far beyond Clark's 3rd law and would be Gods compared to us. Very likely Earth is part of a giant zoo. https://www.thedailybeast.com/super-earths-could-be-more-habitable-to-alien-life-than-earth-sized-planets-because-of-magnetic-fields

by Anonymous 2 years ago