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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Perimene Paradox
I think that to me, the most likely explanation for the Perimene paradox is that they really are very, very rare. Carl Sagan estimated 100,000 of them. If there's that many, some of them would have been way ahead of us. And and I think we would have seen them by now. But at that point, you're right on this dividing line between being a pessimist and an optimist. What are the odds for that? Right? If you look at all the things that had to go right for us. That could be the thing that’s difficult to achieve,. Just getting the random molecules together to a point where they start self replicating and
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