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Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox

Posted by Soulskill on from the fault-in-our-stars dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new study confirms the potential hazard of nearby gamma-ray bursts. It quantifies the probability of an event near Earth, and more generally in the Milky Way and other galaxies over time: "[Evolved] life as it exists on Earth could not take place in almost any galaxy that formed earlier than about five billion years after the Big Bang." This could explain the Fermi's paradox, or why we don't see billion-year-old civilizations all around us.

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  1. Re:Speculations become facts now? by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A hot looking Babe form Tau Ceti,
    Stopped by so she could hump a Yeti.
    They humped all night long,
    While she sang a great song,
    The words of which, the Yeti, forgetti
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