If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven't we heard from them?
. In a new paper, a pair of researchers ask the next obvious question: how long will we have to survive to hear from another alien civilization?400,000 years is a long time for a species that's only been around for a couple hundred thousand years and only discovered farming about 12,000 years ago.
The Drake Equation has its flaws, as many critics have explained. For example, some of its variables are little more than conjecture, so the number of civilizations it calculates isn't reliable. But the Drake Equation is more of a thought experiment than an actual calculation. We have to start somewhere, and it gets us started."Most studies on this problem are based on the Drake equation," the researchers write.
The researchers gave each of these parameters a variable in their calculations. The probability of life appearing and evolving into a CETI is , and the stage of the host star's evolution required is . This pessimistic calculation produces only about 111 CETIs in the Milky Way. Even worse, we'd need to survive another whopping 400,000 years to have two-way communication with them. comes in. The Great Filter is whatever hinders matter from becoming life and then progressing to becoming an advanced civilization.
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