re: Do you believe in the Fermi Paradox: The Great Filter?

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It is crazy how small we are.

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Speak for yourself.

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The fact that 2 cars can theoretically hit head-on but go right through each other without touching is mind blowing enough. But being theoretically possible to teleport could be a game changer in interstellar travel.

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You misunderstand this.

It's true that subatomic particles do something like this, in fact it's becoming a major problem for transistor manufacturers. Particles will simply "tunnel" through a barrier.

But even that isn't quite stating accurately what is happening. A particle doesn't really have a position, it has a probability function that describes the likelihood of it's position if one measures it. That probability is slightly > 0 for certain subatomic particles in transistors.

But keep in mind that this is for a single tiny particle jumping a few nanometers across a barrier. For large objects (like cars) jumping meters past each other is another matter. That probability is so small that for the lifetimes of billions of universes it still isn't happening. It's greater than zero, but so incredibly tiny that we can confidently say it just won't happen.

And "teleporting" across interstellar distances is even less likely than that.

Source: Got my degree in Physics and Astronomy and spent far too much time doing homework calculating stuff like this. For subatomic particles yes this is a thing, anything larger and no it isn't.

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That probability is so small that for the lifetimes of billions of universes it still isn't happening. It's greater than zero

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And "teleporting" across interstellar distances is even less likely than that.

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Not if it's moving through a wormhole.

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Somebody has read the three body problem

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I did. But the theory is based off of the works of scientist David Brin:

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It is consistent with all of the facts and philosophical principles described in the first part of this article. There is no need to struggle to suppress the elements of the Drake equation in order to explain the Great Silence, nor need we suggest that no ETIS anywhere would bear the cost of interstellar travel. It need only happen once for the results of this scenario to become the equilibrium condition in the Galaxy. We would not have detected extraterrestrial radio traffic- nor would any ETIS have ever settled on Earth- because all were killed shortly after discovering radio.

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He then reminds us that broadcasts of I Love Lucy are racing across the cosmos, ready to reveal our location and sense of humor to anybody who can pick them up.

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The Fermi Paradox sounds like something a retard came up with the first time he smoked weed.

No it’s complete bullshite based upon limited data and ridiculous assumptions.

We are are very young planet on the edge of the universal in a young solar system. There are billions maybe Trillions of planets that an support life as we know it, that are billions or years older than us.

The likelihood that some advanced life form don’t exist somewhere is basically zero.

Plus we have been in contact with him for many many years.

Think about Star Treks prime directive rule of non interference, but we are basically lab rats for them. We are much more violent and scary than 99% of universe. They want us left out here on boonies.

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But keep in mind that this is for a single tiny particle jumping a few nanometers across a barrier. For large objects (like cars) jumping meters past each other is another matter. That probability is so small that for the lifetimes of billions of universes it still isn't happening. It's greater than zero, but so incredibly tiny that we can confidently say it just won't happen.

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I think I remember someone trying to calculate the odds of two similar sized objects doing this and it was something like 1 in some number with a million zero's. And to be perfectly clear for the OT that is not 1 in 1,000,000. It is 1 in that number with a million zero's behind it!

The OP is forgetting about Moore's Law and Accelerating Change, not to mention the Technological Singularity