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		chrononaut on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and ... > Emergence of life on Earth took 13.7 billion years 13.7 billion years? Isn't that the age of the universe, and didn't life emerge on Earth only after about a billion years?

yreg on Dec 20, 2022 | [–]

Yes, but the parent means we are 13.7B years late to the party. Other civs should have been spawned before Earth was formed.

jjoonathan on Dec 21, 2022 | [–]

The formation of Earth wouldn't have been the starting gun for alien life evolving somewhere other than Earth.

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