Space Time Stories

For those who might misinterpret my prior comments on Darwinism here’s a clarification.
The philosophy of Darwinism leads many people to use the word “paradox” to describe the lack of alien visitors. They all “know” that the evolution of sentient life is easy, so facile, that the Milky Way “must be” teaming with intelligent life. [...]

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Many recent blog posts continue to try to explain the Fermi Paradox.  I’ll try to explain why these writers just don’t get it.
http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-fermi-paradox/
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_9.html
http://www.entangledstates.org/2009/06/where-are-they-another-solution-to-fermis-paradox.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23604/
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1796-Alternative-solutions-to-the-Fermi-paradox.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408521v1
Many people still are confused on several points about the Fermi Paradox.  Let’s start with the name.
The word paradox is used because everyone “knows” it’s a “fact” that there are countless intelligent aliens [...]

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