Q&A 57: Is The Fermi Paradox Really a Paradox? And More...

LAir. Lighter than Air. I think they were called rockcoons in the old days. A little too close to a racial slur now I think.

Here are some attempts at naming Balloon-launched rockets; A simple answer would be to replace the R in Rocket with a B for balloon or something similar, but Bocket/Brocket/Blocket/Balocket sounds too similar to Rocket when spoken and so doesn't really work well in my opinion. -Skyrocket; Launched from the sky to the sky, as opposed to a ground rocket. -Air Launch; Rockets launched from the sea are just called sea launches right? -Popket; Rocket that pops the balloon -AROREA; Air-based Relocatable Orbital Rocket Embarkation Attachment

There is no paradox, we need to abandon this term. Just because we can't see evidence for something we assume should be evident, doesn't mean it's a paradox. The term is from a decades old discussion. As I emphasize in my books, space and time are simply too significant for biological (and perhaps/apparently even technological) beings to traverse. Civilizations are too short lived for one reason or another, even on the order of tens of thousands of years, to ever meet each other... if they bother to attempt to reach out into deep space at all. At some point there is a limit... a point that the Great Filter comes into play for every single species. Our worlds are all ships on an endless ocean, just missing each other in the dead of night. As ancient derelicts drift undetected by crewed vessels, new (but forever limited in power) ships are being built a great distance beyond. Those ships being too distant from existing crewed vessels searching for any others before they too run out of power or sink from some imminent disaster. A bit sad, but the solution is quite possibly that simple, imo.

A small request, could you include the YouTube link in the Patreon posts, not just the video embed? Without the actual URL there are several additional hoops to jump through to get the video playing in the iOS native YouTube client.

"Could live from Venus escaped to Earth?" Ummmm. . . what? ^_^;;.