Extraterrestrial intelligence in the solar system: resolving the Fermi paradox.
Abstract
The assertion that extraterrestrial intelligences (ETI) do not exist, based on the apparent contradictions inherent in the Fermi Paradox, rests upon an unproven and untenable presumption: that ETI are not now present in the Solar System. The current observational status of the Solar System is insufficient to support the assumption that ETI are not here. Most advanced civilizations also would be either invisible or unrecognizable using current human observational methods, so millions of advanced societies may exist and still not be directly detectable by us. Thus the Fermi Paradox cannot logically be raised as an objection to the existence of ETI until these major observational deficiencies have been corrected.
- Publication:
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Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
- Pub Date:
- November 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983JBIS...36..496F
- Keywords:
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- Extraterrestrial Intelligence;
- Solar System;
- Interstellar Spacecraft;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Paradoxes;
- Space Sciences (General);
- Extraterrestrial Intelligence