Zoo hypothesis?

in alien •  10 months ago 

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https://www.universetoday.com/165005/after-all-of-this-time-searching-for-aliens-are-we-stuck-with-the-zoo-hypothesis

There is too little information to make a plausible estimate.

Given the violent history of our own planet, our own existence was enormously unlikely & even now forms only the tiniest portion of the planet's history.

The conditions for life may be numerous, but the evolution from microbial life to civilization is extraordinarily unlikely & would require hundreds of millions of years at best & civilized life may go extinct as quickly as the other forms.

And the distances & time spans (they may have gone extinct long ago) are incredible.

So the probability is a fraction whose numerator is so large it approaches infinity, & likewise it's denominator is so large it approaches infinity.

But we have no plausible idea what this fraction converges to since our information is too vague & has such large gaps.

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