We are like a lost tribe of Indians living in the Desert who are using smoke signals. We are are disappointed that we see no puffs of smoke on the distant horizon and have conclusively determined therefore there can be no other intelligent life in the Universe. We still can’t figure out what those silver birds with the long white tails are that fly so high but are sure it must only be a natural phenomenon.
Fermi makes a huge, huge, huge assumption that any long-lived civilization uses RF communications for more than a short time during its early development. Hell, we have only had commercial Electricity for around 150 years!
Ugh. Another assertion of the weird inferiority complex that any alien civilization has to be more advanced than ours. If intelligent life were scattered throughout the cosmos, there is no reason to expect we would be on the tail end of it.
Plus, any advanced civilization could not fail to create electromagnetic radiation. It happens every time you accelerate a charge, and charge is a fundamental, universal phenomenon.
We are like a lost tribe of Indians living in the Desert who are using smoke signals. We are are disappointed that we see no puffs of smoke on the distant horizon and have conclusively determined therefore there can be no other intelligent life in the Universe. We still can’t figure out what those silver birds with the long white tails are that fly so high but are sure it must only be a natural phenomenon.
Fermi makes a huge, huge, huge assumption that any long-lived civilization uses RF communications for more than a short time during its early development. Hell, we have only had commercial Electricity for around 150 years!
Ugh. Another assertion of the weird inferiority complex that any alien civilization has to be more advanced than ours. If intelligent life were scattered throughout the cosmos, there is no reason to expect we would be on the tail end of it.
Plus, any advanced civilization could not fail to create electromagnetic radiation. It happens every time you accelerate a charge, and charge is a fundamental, universal phenomenon.