Posted: Nov 13, 2010 11:17 pm
Except, of course, that observations precisely meet those expectations when your expectations are based on the very real limitations to travel across huge stretches of space in reasonably manageable timespans. Given that we have been transmitting radio signals for somewhat less than a century, and given that even our own galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across, this means that our signals have barely begun to cross the galactic disk by comparison. That being the case, your ignorant assumption that we should have detected any civilisation that was out there by now is simply asinine, and only exposes the limitation of your thinking when considering the size of the cosmos and the time it takes to get anything done in it, even at the limit of information transfer. Perhaps it's just because the sixe of the cosmos is not palindromic, and therefore not open to your fucking preposterous wibblings, that you clearly have no fucking idea of what you're talking about.
Incidentally, Douglas Adams' middle name was Noel, not fucking North.
Oh, and what precisely do you actually think there is to know about the Fermi paradox that I haven't already demonstrated my understanding of? Indeed, I have perfectly stated the Fermi paradox in the post you have quoted, in the question 'where is everybody?' which was precisely how it was formulated by Fermi. I also delivered an explanation of why it isn't a paradox, which I note I have done in the past, but that you seem to have failed to grasp. Do you really need to be educated in how long it takes for signals to cross the cosmos, given that the cosmos is somewhere between (at current estimates) 96 and 156 Gly across? That means that it takes a signal at least 96 billion years to get from one side to the other at the lower end of the estimate. I don't know how good you are at counting, but that means that it would actually take roughly 7 times the age of the universe for a signal to cross from one side to the other!
This isn't remotely an unresolved issue, except to those who can't fucking count!
Incidentally, Douglas Adams' middle name was Noel, not fucking North.
Oh, and what precisely do you actually think there is to know about the Fermi paradox that I haven't already demonstrated my understanding of? Indeed, I have perfectly stated the Fermi paradox in the post you have quoted, in the question 'where is everybody?' which was precisely how it was formulated by Fermi. I also delivered an explanation of why it isn't a paradox, which I note I have done in the past, but that you seem to have failed to grasp. Do you really need to be educated in how long it takes for signals to cross the cosmos, given that the cosmos is somewhere between (at current estimates) 96 and 156 Gly across? That means that it takes a signal at least 96 billion years to get from one side to the other at the lower end of the estimate. I don't know how good you are at counting, but that means that it would actually take roughly 7 times the age of the universe for a signal to cross from one side to the other!
This isn't remotely an unresolved issue, except to those who can't fucking count!