Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Alone in the universe, redux

"New study casts doubt on rise of alien life in our galaxy."


The Milky Way may be vast, but some scientists suggest that we are the galaxy's only inhabitants.
If we own up to the true extent of these uncertainties and do the requisite math, the Oxford study finds that there’s at least a 53 percent chance that we’re alone in the Milky Way and at least a 40 percent chance that we’re alone in the visible universe. Homo sapiens could be the smartest thing going.

This result, they claim, melts the Fermi Paradox like butter on a hot griddle — maybe no one has colonized the galaxy because no one else inhabits it.