If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

the heavier elements only recently became sufficiently concentrated in the interstellar medium to allow life to form. Planets around older stars, it is suggested, lack the metals SPONC. Only around quite young stars—stars such as the Sun—can life arise. So humankind is inevitably among the first technological civilizations to arise. Perhaps it’s the first.

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