Just an interest here in peoples beliefs. I personally do not believe in aliens but I was wondering about other peoples beliefs.
This is in no way meant to be judgemental I am just curious.
I would assume a Round Earther would believe in aliens but I could be wrong.
What do you believe?
For me, Fermi's paradox proves that there is no life.
Think about it.....
We've been around for about 50,000 years.
We've started broadcasting data around the world and into space for, let's say, the last 100 years.
Drake's equation says that there should be 1000 - 100 million reachable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way.
Fermi's paradox, however, makes a good point.
If we aren't alone, where is the solid physical evidence?
Surely, if it is possible for a civilization to reach the stage of interstellar travel, they would be on more than one planet.
If this civilization had been around for millions of years, they would have a presence in most of our galaxy.
Assuming that life does not have a tendency to kill itself off, this means that there should be a constant presence of at least 1 species of extraterrestrial interacting with Earth.
Where is the wreckage on other planets?
Where is the evidence on Earth?
To believe in something like extraterrestrials without any solid physical evidence is the same thing as believing in a god.
Until I meet an alien, I would have to say that they are not around.
If the Milky Way is in fact teeming with life, we would know it.
Maybe there's some other Earth-like life living on the other side of the galaxy, but we'll never know it.
We also have no control as to compare the rate of life happening as opposed to not happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradoxPerhaps the Fermi paradox itself—or the alien equivalent of it—is the ultimate reason for any civilization to avoid contact with other civilizations, even if no other obstacles existed. From any one civilization's point of view, it would be unlikely for them to be the first ones to make first contact. Therefore it is likely that previous civilizations faced fatal problems with first contact. So perhaps every civilization keeps quiet because of the possibility that there is a real reason for others to do so.