jafinn
jafinn t1_jcvjh21 wrote
Reply to comment by Icy_Blackberry_3759 in The Fermi Paradox and the Possibility of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life by Beginning-Court1946
There's this and also time. Advanced civilisations could have risen and perished in billions of years. It only took us something like a billion years from simple multi-celled organisms to space flight. And it's really a tiny speck of time we've been sending out radio waves or anything that might be picked up by someone.
There could have been inhabitants a couple of solar systems over and we'd probably never know (at least not yet).
jafinn t1_jea3fqn wrote
Reply to comment by YourFatherUnfiltered in At Long Last, Mathematicians Have Found a Shape With a Pattern That Never Repeats by jwe21
I suspect that it doesn't if you look closely at it (either that or they just stupidly used a stock photo of a random pattern).
We are super good at noticing patterns though so even if they aren't 100% identical our brains will interpret it as a pattern. I'm pretty sure this mathematical breakthrough isn't going to be super useful for decorational purposes.