Elon Musk Delivers SpaceX Update, Talks About Starship Progress, Fermi Paradox, and More!
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It’s been an incredible past 12 months for SpaceX! With many wow’s, Elon Musk gives us a quick summary in the video below, about our future in space, likelihood to occupy Mars and for earthlings to become multi-planetary species.
Description of the video, in italics, below:
In the video published on Jan 13, 2024, by VideoFromSpace, as “Elon Musk delivers SpaceX update, talks Starship progress and more!” below:
Elon Musk stated, “...Do we become a self-sustaining multi-planetary civilization while the civilization still exists or don’t we…that is the key question. I think we got a good chance, but it’s not a sure thing. That’s why time is of the essence. I think we want to make Mars self-sustaining as quickly as possible…that is really the fundamental threshold to pass the Fermi Paradox great filter (the Fermi Pardox is “where is the alien”?) …
To better understand what Fermi Paradox, please refer to the excerpt, in italics, from wikipedia, below:
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.[1][2] As a 2015 article put it, “If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.”[3]
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi‘s name is associated with the paradox because of a casual conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski. While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi blurted out, “But where is everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain).[3][4]
There have been many attempts to resolve the Fermi paradox,[5][6] such as suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial beings are extremely rare, that the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or that they exist but (for various reasons) humans see no evidence.
Chain of reasoning
The following are some of the facts and hypotheses that together serve to highlight the apparent contradiction:
- There are billions of stars in the Milky Way similar to the Sun.[7][8]
- With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets in a circumstellar habitable zone.[9]
- Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the Sun.[10][11] If Earth-like planets are typical, some may have developed intelligent life long ago.
- Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step humans are investigating now.
- Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years.[12]
- Since many of the Sun-like stars are billions of years older than the Sun, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations, or at least their probes.[13]
- However, there is no convincing evidence that this has happened.[12]
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