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I suspect that the problem with the Fermi Paradox is simply a
misunderstanding that will be solved in time and is not a true paradox.
For example, Reno's Paradox that was left unsolved for roughly 1400
years was finally solved by Cantor. By comparison, Fermi's Paradox has
been unsolved for only about 57 years. I am sure that in time the
answer will reveal itself. I don't think John's point was that any of
his ideas was to be a suitable solution, but instead a method of
pointing out just how many other possibilities there are besides the
so-called paradox. Any one of them may be right, or none of them. I
think John's point was that it's not a true paradox. It's just an
unanswered question with many possible answers that simply can't be
tested yet. Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
The evidence we're looking for may just as well be right there in the
crust of the moon or even the ice in our own poles for all we know of
our own planet let alone the rest of the universe.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/12/2007, <b
class="gmail_sendername">John</b> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:desertpaths2003@yahoo.com">desertpaths2003@yahoo.com</a>>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i
apologize in advance for my non-blackberry internet cell phone
connection which does not format well here. why must we think that
intelligent alien races would either self -destruct from civil war or
if not that, give up expansionism to become virtual lotus eaters?
Lol The great powers out there may frown on macro-engineering projects
as being a scar on the natural beauty of the universe and that is why
we don't see it. Or they may have technology so advanced that they
simply do not need dyson sphere sized solar collectors, etc.. Perhaps
they have gone post-singularity and have bored into other planes of
existance so young races like ours have room to develop. They may be
cosmic ecologists at heart. I believe intelligent alien life is out
there and may even be aware of us and have our location marked down on
their maps as being off limits for now. Humanity may be voracious in
its appetite to devour and reshape nature but that may not be the
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case out there. I suspect for ages to come sentients will find it
amusing that we dared to think humanity could be alone in such a vast
universe. John grigg</blockquote>
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<div>What is your reason for believing this? All I see is a typical
vein of anti-human insinuations running through an otherwise entirely
speculative assertion.
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