If you ’ve been trying to recall what makes theoretical maths ace play , here ’s a reminder . Researchers from the University of Edinburgh published apaperin the International Journal of Astrobiology that examines how long it would takeVoyager - sized probes to bop around the Milky Way and finally encounter our solar organisation . The answer is not that retentive ! specially if theprobesare using gravitational slingshotting and peculiarly if they ’re self - replicating .
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The researchers ’ finding support the creation of a thought experiment called the Fermi Paradox , first posited in 1953 . The paradox explores the contradiction in terms between the high probability that there is other intelligent life in the universe and the fact that homo have not had contact with alien civilizations . Proposed by physicist Enrico Fermi , the paradox points to things like the Sun ’s comparatively young age ( compare to other Milky Way star ) as evidence that enough prison term has pass for it to be sensible that another civilisation could have discover Earth .
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