(22.Juni) A new paper in arXiv seeks to „dissolve the Fermi Paradox“ by specifying various values for the parameters in the Drake Equation. The paper is by three researchers from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, research fellow Anders Sandberg, nanotechnologist Eric Drexler, and philosopher Tod Ord. As the researchers note:(…)
When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ‚Where are they?‘ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.