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Fermi Paradox paper: aliens could take their time settling the galaxy

Accepted submission by at 2019-09-09 22:49:19
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https://www.businessinsider.com/alien-civilizations-may-have-already-colonized-galaxy-study-2019-8 [businessinsider.com]

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 [iop.org] 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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