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    Fermat's Library‏ @fermatslibrary 20 Nov 2018
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    "Where are they? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing.", by Nick Bostrom is a philosophical essay about the search for aliens. It’s a great read: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/where-are-they-why-i-hope-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-finds-nothing#email-newsletter …pic.twitter.com/4s0BO392WE

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    • 10 ❤️⚡️ Enrique Carmona James Cochrane Mysteriously Unnamed Ravi Bisht Randy Boyes Physics Sergei Blagodarin Ziggy Stardust 💫👨🏼‍🎤
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      2. 'LocalJoost' [)-) van Schaik‏ @LocalJoost 21 Nov 2018
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        It's also just a matter of distance. Even mankind's very first faint radio waves, that travel at light speed, have crossed a bubble of only a 100 lightyears radius. The milky way about 1000 times as big. Distance to nearest galaxy 25000 times a big

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      3. Paul den Dulk‏ @pauldendulk 21 Nov 2018
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        A bigger issues is that, considering the enormous time spans, it will not be humankind, but it's successor to colonize space. We will be as 'happy' as orangutans are with the current success of primates.

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      1. Brian Montgomery‏ @bmontgomery746 20 Nov 2018
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        Political policy regarding public funding of any research is fueled by popular thinking. Popular thinking, in our age (possibly in every age) is guided by our story tellers. The problem with story telling is that it requires characters. A lifeless lonely universe doesn't sell.

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      1. Maximilian Hoffmann‏ @cellattached 20 Nov 2018
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        https://xkcd.com/2074/  , the big filter already?

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      1. zbingledack‏ @zbingledack 20 Nov 2018
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        Bostrom's simulation argument is a mere magician's trick where he subtly equivocates on which "universe" he is talking about midway through the argument. Pretty fun if you suspend your critical thinking, but not appropriate for a math feed IMO as math lives and dies by rigor.

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      2. Cat's life‏ @carribeanpeanut 20 Nov 2018
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        My hypothesis: the Great Filter is in our future: intelligence realizes that conscience is a construct of the body, not eternal nor transferable, before large scale or distant space travel is possible. So intelligent life is meaningless and civilizations suicide or bore to death.

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      3. Cat's life‏ @carribeanpeanut 20 Nov 2018
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        The current status of our research in the areas of biology, AI and space travel hints that we are close to that realization.

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      1. Sri‏ @ViraatianSK 20 Nov 2018
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        true words, our generation may not witness the aliens but in future there's possibility...

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      1. Sujith Suresh‏ @Sujiths46 20 Nov 2018
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        Am still sure that, in past, aliens have visited our planet, not just once, maybe many a times!

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      1. Eclectic_nish‏ @Eclectic_nish 20 Nov 2018
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        With so many billion possible options for life to exist [Space] there is a very high probability that it has occured. However, for it to be discovered within human existence [Time] and within similar levels of evolution makes that probability of infinitely less.

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