Well quoted.
The night is yet young.
We could speed things up with a few biological projectiles but our descendants may not thank us.
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Originally Posted by sjastro
Brian Cox also has an interesting take that intelligent life in the Universe could be extremely rare.
If we assume we are an intelligent life form that took 4.5 billion years to evolve and given the Universe is around 13.8 billion years old, it has taken around 1/3 of the age of the Universe for us to evolve.
If this time frame represents a "norm" in the evolution of intelligent life then the Universe is not old enough to be teeming with intelligent life.
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