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Old 06-04-2023, 13:47   #38
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Re: Stephen Hawking warns "we should avoid aliens"

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
But the Fermi Paradox says if that's true, why haven't we seen any?

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The problem with the Fermi Paradox is it doesn't define life. Could there be a world where dinosaurs didn't get wiped out and remaind the dominant species? Is an amoeba life? Can silicon life exist?

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How can we be sure we havent.

It says "the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations" - it could have been, its 4 billion years old, nothing to say they would have visited in the last 200 or so years in which we might have been aware they were aliens.
There's been plenty of speculation they did during the time of the pyramids/Mminoan's

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