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The Fermi Paradox

Once upon a time, scientists decided, “what would happen if we point Hubble at this dark piece of the sky and leave the exposure open for an absurd amount of time?” Said scientists then experienced sudden bowel incontinence from the results. Vast specks of light, like the first image and when zoomed in, each individual speck of light is it’s own galaxy with it’s own solar systems.

Seeing the sheer vastness of the universe and that it’s so large, it’s incomprehensible to our feeble minds, is it possible that we’re alone? Where are all the aliens?

The Fermi Paradox tries to describe why we seem to be alone in a vast sea of endless possibilities for intelligent life to form. Life seems to form easily, surely it’s the same elsewhere.

Here’s some main bullet point arguments as to why we’re seemingly alone.

• We’re too far apart, separated by vast space and time • We’re rare or we’re the first • The aliens don’t have advanced technology (we don’t either). Think of it this way, an octopus or a crow is intelligent life. They’ve never even visited the moon. • Mass extinctions happen more often than not, they might be dead or intelligent life never exists long enough to make contact with each other before it’s wiped out • We haven’t existed long enough to be discovered or to figure out how to find others • They’re too advanced for us • It’s simple nature of intelligent life to eventually wipe itself out • Intelligent life has discovered that it’s too dangers to be in contact • We’re not listening properly for their messages. It’s like trying to listen to a CD on a record player - it won’t work. • We’re not contacted because we’re in a simulation or an alien zoo • Maybe they’re already here, observing • Maybe they’re here (e.g. UFOs?) we just don’t know how to talk to them or acknoweldge them. We laugh at most UFO reports.

timelapse di un’eclissi totale di Luna, in cui la Luna passa nell’ombra della Terra, diventando color rosso sangue

500,000 Suns by Paul Blake

The North America Nebula, NGC 7000 // DaydreamAstro

A near-infrared view of the giant planet Uranus with rings and some of its moons, obtained on November 19, 2002, with the ISAAC multi-mode instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope at the ESO Paranal Observatory (Chile). The moons are identified; the unidentified, round object to the left is a background star. The image scale in indicated by the bar.

Credit: ESO

What are Trans-Neptunian object?

A trans-Neptunian object (TNO), also written transneptunian object, is any minor planet or dwarf planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has a semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units (AU).

The first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered was Pluto in 1930. It took until 1992 to discover a second trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun directly, 15760 Albion. The most massive TNO known is Eris, followed by Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. source

Saturn and Neptune by Voyager II

Ben Lewis Giles - Astronaut, date unknown

The Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33, in Orion.

Credit: Vittorino Suma