To: LindyBill who wrote (6943 ) 3/16/2014 2:22:15 PM From: Thomas A Watson Read Replies (1) | Respond to I find your premiss that " no species that could make it out of it's solar system would still use wars as a political mechanism" to be nonsense.Fermi paradox (or Fermi's paradox ) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity 's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations. [1] The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart , are:The Sun is a young star. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older; some of these stars probably have Earth-like planets [2] which, if the Earth is typical, may develop intelligent life; presumably, some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now, such as that used in the proposed 100 Year Starship ; at any practical pace of interstellar travel , the galaxy can be completely colonized in a few tens of millions of years. Empirical resolution attempts ) elsewhere have been spotted, either in our galaxy or in the more than 80 billion other galaxies of the observable universe . Hence Fermi's question, "Where is everybody?" [3]
