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Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Zoo Hypothesis

The longer a galaxy runs the faster new intelligences are appearing in occupied space, but they do not appear inside already occupied space. And condition B basically amounts to saying when you colonize a place it looks different than when it was untouched. The model will effectively argue that no new GCs will be emerging after about 4 billion years from now as the whole universe should be full of other GCs even very pessimistic occurrence and growth rates.

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