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well anon, why do (You) think theres no aliens around?

my take: the "paradox" doesnt exist at all and is a literal psyop because aliens have been here for a while but certain (((groups))) would prefer that kept under wraps. but its still fun to talk about. pic related (she is an alien)
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>>16834926
Paradox doesn't exist because for it to exist we have to assume that we know the universal frequency of life and intelligent life to at least some degree, as well as the general trends of development for intelligent life. While in reality the only singular thing we know of such frequencies is that they are above 0 and below 1, and we know so little of the developmental trends of intelligent life that we can't predict our own development for the next 10 years, much less the development of some alien intelligent life over tens of thousands of years.

The whole thing boils down to modern astrophysical paradigm making "crowded space" a natural assumption, and space not actually being crowded in reality emotionally feels like a rugpull. It once felt safe to assume that all the stars are full of civilizations of people going to work, clocking in and building big things necessary for building bigger things. Some felt it like the universal telos or something. If it turns out the local supercluster is not full of alien civilizations doing the same thing, it's suddenly much harder to justify perpetual technological development towards using exponentially more energy to build exponentially bigger shit exponentially farther from our point of origin.Often feels confounding. This feeling is the essence of the "Paradox", really.
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>>16834961
great response. I guess this board isnt completely filled with retards.
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>>16834926
Time. Humans are very, very young. Our species has existed for ~10k years, our civilization for ~2k years, and we've only had technology that can probe into space or be detected from space for ~100 years.

Mars, Venus, the moons of Saturn, even our own moon could have had life millions of years ago that went extinct, or life could arise in them millions of years from now.

Outside our own solar system our chances of ever detecting life is extremely remote, even if the galaxy is teeming with life. Some scientists are overambitious and hope to detect Dyson spheres and other megastructures to prove life exists on the galaxy, which is patently ridiculous. If you assume that most science fiction is purely fiction, rather than prophecy, life is extremely hard to detect.
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>>16834926

what kind of alien would you want
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>>16834926
I think people overestimate how easy it would be for us to detect alien life. It seems plausible to me that it’d be too costly and impractical for even the most advanced ayys to do anything that would make them observable across interstellar distances, but I’m no astronomer.
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Occam's Razor. There are no aliens. There, solved.
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>>16834926
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All board in this post go to blue noose plz

It's today on my 4chan is it here on urs?
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>>16835921
big tiddied intergalactic sperm collectors
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Excuse me so much im from gravity can i show a screenshot original 4chan
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down here
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>>16836008
sorry capacitence testing here
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i inow u guys can read that its in my samefag intuition sorry again, thanks we win it
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>>16836009
its me
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i show up to talk and your on my posts instant even years later like yesterday with the walking a walking a walking a duckling pic
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i might be served to you in another technology from another world, i think this is divs here
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i inow 12999908998 today +22 i think
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>>16834926
It's a really easy answer: humans are the only sapient life in the Universe and the odds of our existence are low enough that it confirms sapient life (and probably life at all, but maybe there's space pork somewhere) exists nowhere else.
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>>16836021
its a tags html browser on any i login
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look in here plz <div la s\" "/>

says between " " who and what u want
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" _ _ _ - | - |-"

here is this one, my pleasure!
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sorry 4 interrupting

we fight |_|_; together everyday time
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>>16836011
ohh double layered volt crap!
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volts hobo bench 10years 4chan
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>>16836022
jioli o

- volt
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>>16836036
>>16836009
exact same 1:2 1:2 rarcho f ya!
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itls = htdq not brreq = btylds n stuff eyy impressed?
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>>16836046
itls = itls repeatable, wait 50s
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>>16836047
itls = itls = itls not itls and itls = itls so itls is capacitence right?
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>>16836050
capacitence x 2 i actually assume*
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meet King Zhan Beel, gravity being!
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>>16836052
bowtz and i accept your supportremove offer i made us for you to do and me achieves anyway
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and cults just like film?
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>>16836055
uhm, as in cult of passion guy is just like low on the couch right guy exactly
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and im just like begv am i? omnivots
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>>16834926
NASA has found them multiple times before, but every time they do they instantly go exterminate them all
If we find extraterrestrial life we won't need to fund the search for extraterrestrial life as intensely, so their money goes bye-bye
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i can see youbeliodhritireutreytia! to fight ya hardest just ask anyway fukcking no i dont care its all good its all goodddd
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>>16836063
aliens materialise self sustained as hologram kinda physical dark matter and energy they arnt grown from parents or on diets you can contact them or they can mimic you. Or they threat narrative the policies all day but who cares
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beel its zon top lerk tre arp? - alien pressure have an absorb_ _ volt volt : through here guys have a check no losses sure its an alien pressure
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>>16836069
through here
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i typed it up i learned it already from my defence system
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>>16836070
volts ilililkoilep = illiiiiipopoopoipollip

alien volt wow
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ytirrretrjlvkdspqah is a spaceship light beam
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thanks a heap! vote Virels and Orthons over Archons and Egyptian Gods and go Lord Zhan Beel! bye. *redportalz 1 2 3 red*
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>>16834926
As a biologist I just assume it's isolation by distance. Even on our own planet, sloths in South America have no idea that kangaroos in Australia exist. It was largely the same for humans up until recently. Searching for alien signals is like a bird on one side of a continent trying to listen to calls from birds on the other side of the continent



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