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Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy

posted by chromas on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly

Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.businessinsider.com/alien-civilizations-may-have-already-colonized-galaxy-study-2019-8

The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations — we just don't know about it because they haven't paid us a visit in 10 million years.

A study published last month in The Astronomical Journal[$] posits that intelligent extraterrestrial life could be taking its time to explore the galaxy, harnessing star systems' movement to make star-hopping easier.

The work is a new response to a question known as the Fermi paradox, which asks why we haven't detected signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @11:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @11:20AM (#892165)

    Not one appears to be producing non-natural radio signals.

    You may want to check your signal to noise ratio. How is that WiFi at home working when you are 2000km away? Can't get the signal? WTF??? It's very close!! Not even on Mars! And Mars is also very close. If you wish to pick up alien transmissions, you better be able to use your WiFi from fucking Mars at crystal clear signal level without any fancy antennas either. Regular tablet/laptop on Mars and regular router in your house.

    Get my point? And this is only scratching the surface about ONE problem, never mind dozens of others I can think of.

    Ignorance breeds stupid comments.

    How many G series stars are there in the sky? Some are young, some are old, but there are a staggering number of them.

    Here you even answered your own question without realizing it. These are fucking STARS. 1e26W power output and yet you can't even see them because they are so dim. And then you expect to see something 1e20x weaker transmission that wasn't even sent in our way.....