{"id":143530,"date":"2022-08-03T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-fermi-paradox-revisited-and-resolved"},"modified":"2022-08-03T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:24:48","slug":"the-fermi-paradox-revisited-and-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-fermi-paradox-revisited-and-resolved","title":{"rendered":"The Fermi Paradox Revisited and Resolved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zv7e4rFrt-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, four distinguished astrophysicists \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pas.rochester.edu\/~johannjc\/\" target=_blank>Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamfrankscience.com\/\" target=_blank>Adam Frank<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psu.edu\/astrowright\/jason-t-wright-assistant-professor-of-astronomy-and-astrophysics\/\" target=_blank>Jason Wright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calebscharf.com\/\" target=_blank>Caleb Scharf <\/a>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1902.04450\" target=_blank>suggested<\/a> that Earth may have remained unvisited by space-faring civilizations all the while existing in a galaxy of interstellar civilizations seeded by moving stars that spread alien life, offering a solution to the perplexing Fermi paradox. They concluded that a planet-hopping civilization could populate the Milky Way in as little as 650,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible that the Milky Way is partially settled, or intermittently so; maybe explorers visited us in the past, but we don\u2019t remember, and they died out,\u201d says Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, an astronomer at the University of Rochester and his collaborators in a 2019 study that suggests it wouldn\u2019t take as long as thought for a space-faring civilization to planet-hop across the galaxy, because the orbits of stars can help distribute life, offering a new solution to the Fermi paradox. \u201cThe solar system may well be amid other settled systems; it\u2019s just been unvisited for millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2020, four distinguished astrophysicists \u2014 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Adam Frank, Jason Wright, Caleb Scharf \u2014 suggested that Earth may have remained unvisited by space-faring civilizations all the while existing in a galaxy of interstellar civilizations seeded by moving stars that spread alien life, offering a solution to the perplexing Fermi paradox. They concluded that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}