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Originally Posted by clint
It could also perfectly be neither common, nor confined to our solar system.
Or primitive life extremely common, but intelligent life extremely rare.
Or extremely rare to emerge by itself, but still omnipresent in our galaxy.
Or...
What if we are the most advanced species in our galaxy, yet?
(not saying we are, but it's possible - it would certainly solve Fermi's Paradox)...
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Sorry Clint, I initially missed your post... You are of course entirely correct. I was simplifying, and perhaps exaggerating. All of the speculation about frequency of space faring civilisations is extremely speculative until more data arrives. (Hopefully not in the form of a 'ravaging' hoard
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But as you seem to agree.... that doesn't really change the point that we should be more cautious than bold until we know more.