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		slashdev on June 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon That's not by itself sufficient to explain the Fermi paradox. You can go into the math, and you can find people online who have. I don't have time to dig that up for you now though.

elorant on June 19, 2022 [–]

There is no math. It's all assumptions. Which can be wrong for a variety of reasons.

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