Aliens need a lot motime to find us Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Aliens need a lot motime to find us
# 9545 bylucioc@... on Jan. 22, 2007, 3:10 a.m.
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On 1/22/07, Alex Michael Bonnici wrote:
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> "So, where is everybody?" Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi reportedly quipped to fellow physicists in 1950, when discussing why we haven't seen any signs of alien civilisations if, as many believe, our galaxy is teeming with life. Now, a maths model may have an answer to Fermi's paradox. Rasmus Bjork of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen has calculated that eight probes travelling at a tenth of the speed of light and each capable of launching up to eight sub-probes would take about 100,000 years to explore a region of space containing 40,000 stars.
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just an eye blink in a universe that has been existing for billions
and billions of years.