Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth.
A recent study suggests otherwise. This new study, led by Chris Doughty, a professor of ecoinformatics at Northern Arizona University, proposes that the extent to which life on potentially habitable exoplanets in Earth’s stellar neighbors is advanced is likely related to plant energy, not just how much time has passed.
That means that, although Earth is young compared to some of its stellar neighbors, which are older by several billion years, life on exoplanets, with worse conditions for cumulative photosynthesis, likely evolved more slowly over billions of years.
“Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, given the high likelihood of intelligent life in the galaxy, ‘Where are they?’ Doughty said. “This paper suggests that our exoplanet stellar neighborhood may be quiet because most Earth-like planets near us are likely to be evolutionarily behind us and still at the microbial stage.
Which means we can sleep well, because if life on those exoplanets evolved just like on Earth, most of those planets will just be filled with microbes and not advanced aliens.”
That doesn't mean that one that is not nerarby isn't. Another shit stupid "study."
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