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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Fermi Paradox

The Fermi paradox famously asks where is everybody how do you reconcile that tension right so i have two ways of of thinking about it one is that indeed the great filter civilizations have a short lifetime and at any given time you have a relatively small fraction of them that you can get signals from. Another possibility is that after they evolve technologically we're still yet to find alien intelligences but those are very difficult to detect even with our best telescopes.

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