Comments by "Emanon" (@Emanon...) on "The Fermi Paradox Has An Incredibly Simple Solution" video.

  1. Eyes. Eyes have evolved separately seven times in species completely independent of each other. This parallelism suggests that life may in fact not be so rare, but your point about phosphorus is well taken assuming it's a key ingredient and there are no alternative pathways for carbon based intelligence to evolve.
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  2. It's not a paradox. It's a faulty assumption: 1. Time 2. Distance And most importantly 3. Our assumption of tech paths, detectable signals and the necessity of building megastructures. To put it bluntly: We've been looking for apples and cats in a bucket of seawater.
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  3. Exactly! I would also add that our assumptions of building detectable megastructures is simply either not viable or wholly unnecessary when you reach a certain technology threshold, which is why we haven't detected any in our search.
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