[LibWhacker]

Found a few instances of profanity. Hope I got them all grawlixed out.

[redgolum]

For later.

Lot of assumptions with the Fermi Paradox that may not be true.

[mrsmith]

“Where in the timeline does the Great Filter occur? “

The Great Filter is... bureaucratization!
It’s destroyed every known civilization that’s been destroyed, and yet every civilization chooses to employ it.

Bureaucratization is the most dangerous power in the universe.
And no civilization can resist it.

[Art in Idaho]

Interesting. . The Truth is Out There. .

The Secret is in the Circle. .

[UCANSEE2]

[MarchonDC09122009]

Fascinating post!

[TheRobb7]

...perhaps we are the only ones, per the account in Genesis.

All that stuff out there is for us to populate once we get past the Great White Throne Judgement.

Either way, fascinating stuff.

[Don Corleone]

The real Fermi paradox is just how in Hell did supposedly intelligent man ever elect such an anti-American president...twice?

[PlateOfShrimp]

Well, maybe there are only so many monoliths to go around :)

Seriously, this the second Fermi-paradox article I have read this week, and it’s very interesting that both of them consider an incredible variety of highly speculative solutions, while deliberately ignoring the most obvious possible explanation.

“O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not...”

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...Wonder if this examined in greater detail in Common Core documents...

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...Wonder if this examined in greater detail in Common Core documents...

[jcon40]

SETI is for people obsessed with looking only in one direction for other consciences.

Years ago I made the acronym SQuInt (Search for Quantum Intelligence)

Mathematically the microcosm also offers an infinity of places to look.

The perspective on the size of things may be as relative as time and space.

I have yet to see any scientific work that demonstrates the size of one’s conscience or where and how it exists....

May be more about one’s faith than what we think our eyes and other senses perceive is reality.

[TigersEye]

A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood.

The problem is that our neighbors never take down their Christmas lights so we can't see the rest of the galaxy!

[I want the USA back]

Humans’ profound inability to understand the Cosmos does not mean that there are any paradoxes. Reality is intact. Humans’ understanding of it is inadequate.

When humans think their minds can encompass the universe they usurp for themselves the role of the Creator.

[Moonman62]

There is no paradox. Aliens have already colonized Earth disguised as domestic cats.

[JoeProBono]

[editor-surveyor]

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This screed is 100% ‘Anti-Science.’
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Tons of assertions; absolutely no basis.

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[mjp]

So where is everybody?

[aquila48]

Bookmark.

[stylin19a]

We're not so arrogant to think we are the only ones.
But we are arrogant to think that life exists only as life exists on earth. That only an earth like environment can sustain life.

[vetvetdoug]

Enrico Fermi was brilliant. At Chicago for the Manhatten Project he used a football field sized stack of graphite to demonstrate nuclear fission. One of his assistants was a physicist from Corinth, Mississippi that went on to develop Atomic Theory at Princeton and later run ORNL and teach at Vanderbilt. Something about these men from that era that were able to make advances with leaps and bounds.