37. Fermi's Paradox & Avoiding Apocalypse | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2014-07-23

Enrico Fermi thought we should have heard from aliens by now...did they all suffer some disastrous fate? If so, how might we avoid it?

-Links for the Curious-

A fantastic overview of the Fermi paradox - http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

A quick calculation of the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way - http://www.universetoday.com/103379/60-billion-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-alone-astronomers-say-yes/

The creepy Wiki page about Global Catastrophic Risks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risks

A fantastic report by the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford projecting likelihood of human extinction via various events (thanks to Samuel Stringman!) - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/gcr-report.pdf

The AAAS statement on human cloning - http://www.aaas.org/page/american-association-advancement-science-statement-human-cloning

Carl Sagan explains why aliens aren't visiting us all the time - http://sploid.gizmodo.com/carl-sagan-explains-why-we-arent-being-visited-by-alien-1608579953/+caseychan