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A Time Odyssey is a series of novels co-written by Arthur C. Clarke (author of the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Stephen Baxter. As of 2008, the series consists of: Vol. 1 – Time's Eye (3 March 2003) Vol. 2 – Sunstorm (29 March 2005) Vol. 3 – Firstborn (26 December 2007)
So by this argument, finding multicellular life on Mars (provided it evolved independently) would be bad news, since it would imply steps 2–6 are easy, and hence only 1, 7, 8 or 9 (or some unknown step) could be the big problem. [4] Although steps 1–8 have occurred on Earth, any one of these may be unlikely.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. Problem of the lack of evidence for alien life despite its apparent likelihood This article is about the absence of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. For a type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem. Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between ...
It is the first book in the A Time Odyssey ... end of the universe and thus the end of intelligent life, they set out to find other intelligent beings developing ...
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein. This echoes his stance, reported elsewhere: Life as we know it is, among other things, dependent on at least 2000 different enzymes.
The Hart–Tipler conjecture is the idea that an absence of detectable Von Neumann probes is contrapositive evidence that no intelligent life exists outside of the Solar System. [1] [2] This idea was first proposed in opposition to the Drake equation in a 1975 paper by Michael H. Hart titled "Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on ...
If so then Deceived Wisdom is the book for you. Organised into easy-to-read standalone sections, it looks at the things we think we know and examines why we don’t know them at all. There is much deceived wisdom in the world – from fit-ness fallacies to dietary deceptions and countless miscellane-ous misconceptions.
An existential risk is "one that threatens the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent and drastic destruction of its potential for desirable future development". [67] Besides extinction risk, there is the risk that the civilization gets permanently locked into a flawed future.