Fermi's Paradox Response

In Act one of Fermi’s Paradox podcast, it talks about how David is sad that there isn’t life beyond Earth. In this podcast he goes on to ask other people their opinions on Fermi’s Paradox. Mellissa feels the great opposite of David’s opinion about life in the galaxy. While David is sad about no life, Mellissa is quite happy that there isn’t. She actually finds David funny that he feels sad about it. David then ask about the paradox to Paul. Paul in fact was interested in Fermi’s Paradox, and feels like it’s a serious question, however he is not too focus as much as David is. Paul is more worried about the death experience, especially because he is around the age of death, 80. The podcast then goes on talking about a physics problem that makes Mellissa sad and she says the speed of light. She finds it to be too small especially when the speed of light is really fast. At the end of the podcast, Mellissa and David both used an equation to calculate how much civilizations that could be on the galaxy, and they found out that from a spectrum of 0 life to 156 million civilizations if life. David was sacred about the 0 while Mellissa was terrified about the 156 million. David came to a conclusion at the end of the podcast, is that is better to not know if there is life than having the answer to be no.

I think all three acts all have something in common and that is about loneness. Nobody wants to be alone and wants to have that source of a companionship. David for him, he felt like he was alone because they were anybody that looked like a human. He wanted to believe that there is an extraterrestrial life somewhere. But since, he couldn’t find any, he is sad because he is realizing that “yeah, I’m alone.” This the same thing with the second podcast, a marriage of two can be so sad that it feels like you’re alone. In thus podcast, a therapist helps a marriage regain back trust and develop that companionship that they once had. The third podcast, Matt’s daughter just wanted to ask her dad questions so she doesn’t feel alone. She wanted to start a conversation with her busy dad.

Some questions I would ask my parents is what was it like back in the 1960’s? My parents were born in the late 1950’s I know during this time period it was a lot of immigration laws and the civil right movement. I would also ask them how my mom and dad met? How and why? My parents never really told me how they met.

I am not scared at all that life hasn’t been discovered. I’m quite happy about it. I know that aliens won’t come and take over the whole Earth or just eat us. I’m afraid that what if these aliens don’t look like us, what if they could be harmful? I’ve watched so much movies about monsters outside of earth like E.T, and it scares me. I know it’s kind of stereotyped, but I’ve been introduced to that so much, I have nothing else to do but to just believe it.

My favorite question Rosie asked was “What is love?” This question was always so relevant to me. I’ve been in relationships that didn’t work out and I always ask myself why didn’t it work out. I though love was to always work.