Then tell me we should have been contacted by now. Even with light speed travel (not faster), we're talking 13 billion years.. and this isn't including the time necessary for the civilization to advance that far.
The distance is staggering.
edit: rereading Fermi's paradox it seems they are only talking about the Milky Way, which I am not. But even if the chances of intelligent life forming are 1 in a billion.. the universe is so large that there could still be many civilizations out there (that we might never see).
Which is my point of view.. there probably is intelligent life out there but it's unlikely we will ever run into it.
Go through these images: http://imgur.com/a/3Y6dB#NynTc
Then tell me we should have been contacted by now. Even with light speed travel (not faster), we're talking 13 billion years.. and this isn't including the time necessary for the civilization to advance that far.
The distance is staggering.
edit: rereading Fermi's paradox it seems they are only talking about the Milky Way, which I am not. But even if the chances of intelligent life forming are 1 in a billion.. the universe is so large that there could still be many civilizations out there (that we might never see).
Which is my point of view.. there probably is intelligent life out there but it's unlikely we will ever run into it.