This article on the 'Fermi Paradox' is pretty awesome.
(Fans of authors like Ian M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds especially will enjoy it, I think.)
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Awesome article, thanks for posting the link.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I'm the glass is half full sort of person as I don't think we're alone even if earth is the only place with life,
I share my home with at least a half dozen species (1 of them is voluntary), not counting plants there are 30 or more other species in my yard, sure I can't discuss D&D or the meaning of life with them but that's true with at least 99.9% of other humans.
Excellent, thanks for posting! As a mathematician/statistician myself, I can say I am really NOT comfortable when making probabilistic assumptions about the distribution of "stuff."
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