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Is the universe really a 'dark forest' full of hostile aliens in hiding? It's one of the least convincing solutions to the Fermi Paradox. (phys.org)

submitted 6 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

There’s a decent chance that while life is common, technologically advanced life isn’t - life evolved almost as soon as conditions allowed (on a geological timescale) but it took a lot of good fortune and time for humans to appear.

I don't know, we're not the only species that's started using stone tools, for example. As far as I can tell species get more or less prehensile and intelligent over time fairly randomly, and it's just a matter of diffusion for one to reach the capability of using technology.