Anonymous
6/2/2025, 5:01:38 AM
No.16683929
>>16683730
>Come up with your own explanation for the The Fermi Paradox
Evolution isn't an organic machine designed to produce intelligent beings like us. Even in our own biosphere, for the entire natural history, there's maybe been 5 or so intelligent species and out of them we're the only ones who arbitrarily decided to build civilization - which has only happened in the last 10,000 years out of 300,000 or so years of existence. Everything about 'us' is exceptional.
FURTHERMORE, our own biosphere is only as biologically diverse as it is because we've gone through 5 mass extinctions that killed all the dominant taxa and left behind successive batches of mixed disaster taxa to try something new.
In the distant future we might very well find out that of the precious few life-bearing planets encountered are all still largely stuck in their version of the Cambrian or Carboniferous.
>Come up with your own explanation for the The Fermi Paradox
Evolution isn't an organic machine designed to produce intelligent beings like us. Even in our own biosphere, for the entire natural history, there's maybe been 5 or so intelligent species and out of them we're the only ones who arbitrarily decided to build civilization - which has only happened in the last 10,000 years out of 300,000 or so years of existence. Everything about 'us' is exceptional.
FURTHERMORE, our own biosphere is only as biologically diverse as it is because we've gone through 5 mass extinctions that killed all the dominant taxa and left behind successive batches of mixed disaster taxa to try something new.
In the distant future we might very well find out that of the precious few life-bearing planets encountered are all still largely stuck in their version of the Cambrian or Carboniferous.