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Malgré des milliards de planètes potentiellement habitables, aucune preuve confirmée d’une intelligence extraterrestre n’a été trouvée, mettant en évidence le paradoxe de Fermi non résolu.
Les estimations astronomiques suggèrent que l’univers observable contient environ deux billions de galaxies, chacune avec des milliards d’étoiles. Dans la Voie lactée seule, il y a environ 400 milliards d’étoiles et entre 10 et 20 milliards de planètes semblables à la Terre. Ces chiffres indiquent que des conditions propices à la vie sont probablement courantes plutôt que rares.
La présence de la vie sur Terre montre que la biologie peut émerger dans les bonnes conditions. Ce fait soutient l’idée scientifique que la vie pourrait apparaître ailleurs, étant donné le grand nombre d’environnements similaires dans le cosmos.
Des programmes scientifiques comme SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) passent depuis des décennies le ciel au crible à la recherche de signaux artificiels ou de signes de civilisations avancées. Malgré des recherches systématiques avec de puissants radiotélescopes, aucune preuve vérifiée d’intelligence extraterrestre n’a été détectée.
Les chercheurs soulignent que toute détection confirmée serait rendue publique. Les observatoires et institutions fonctionnent dans des cadres scientifiques ouverts, ce qui signifie qu’un signal crédible deviendrait rapidement une information mondiale plutôt que de rester caché.
Les investigations dans le système solaire, notamment sur Mars, ont fourni des indices prudents et controversés suggérant qu’une vie microbienne a pu exister. Bien que non définitifs, ces résultats suggèrent que la vie simple pourrait être plus courante que la vie intelligente.
L’absence de preuves est résumée par le paradoxe de Fermi, nommé d’après le physicien Enrico Fermi. Étant donné l’âge de la galaxie — plus de 10 milliards d’années — et l’abondance de planètes habitables, des civilisations avancées auraient théoriquement dû émerger et se diffuser, laissant des traces détectables.
Si même une petite fraction des planètes habitables développait une vie intelligente, certaines civilisations pourraient être des millions ou des milliards d’années plus avancées que l’humanité. Pourtant, aucun signe clair — tels que des signaux, des mégastructures ou des sondes — n’a été observé.
Les affirmations populaires concernant des rencontres extraterrestres ou des vaisseaux récupérés manquent de preuves scientifiques crédibles. Les conclusions actuelles reposent sur des observations systématiques et des données vérifiables, non sur des témoignages ou des théories du complot.
La combinaison d’un immense potentiel cosmique et de l’absence totale de détection confirmée maintient la question de la vie extraterrestre ouverte, le paradoxe de Fermi restant l’un des mystères les plus fascinants non résolus de la science.
There are billions of planets similar to Earth. So, why have we never found aliens? The answer may be stranger than you think. >> Do you Do you think aliens exist or are we alone in the universe? >> I'm sure we're not alone in the universe. I mean, I just said there are two two trillion galaxies in the bit of the universe we can see. It's because we know that life can exist, obviously, cuz it exists here. So, I I cannot believe that out there in the trillions of planets and >> Yeah. >> trillions of stars and galaxies that there's that there's that there's nowhere else like this, right? However, I think a better question is probably like but in the Milky Way galaxy, so let let's think about something that we could actually possibly go to somewhere we could go, something we could meet, right? That So, in our galaxy, 400 billion suns, we've got a chance at some point in the future of encountering those stars and planets, right? Oh, so uh what about our galaxy? So, at the mo- all we can say is we've listened and looked for civilizations, and it's a very good thing to do when we do it, and it's scientific, and it's called SETI, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and we And we haven't heard anything. We haven't seen anything. We're still looking, haven't heard. So, uh as at the moment, we haven't detected anything. We are looking for microbes on Mars, for example, and we're there's some circumstantial evidence that they existed. >> Yeah. >> So, we're not sure, but every measurement that we make points to the fact they could have that So, the conditions were right. There's some evidence from a a year or two ago that maybe that So, it's kind of controversial. We're not sure, but it looks like there might be. >> Does all this evidence have to be made public? >> Yeah. So, it it's just science. >> going to like phone you up and go, "Brian, we've got some good news." >> I have friends who work at the radio telescopes Jodrell Bank in Manchester, for example, and there's no If they detect a signal, they'd they'd be on your show saying, "Yeah, we detected a signal." >> Wow. Do you have mates that like ring you up and go, "Brian, you won't believe what I've just found out today." >> Well, no, cuz they haven't found anything. >> Oh. >> [laughter] >> So, no one ever rang me up and said, "You won't believe it." But, the the thing is So, it's a mystery, actually. It's one of the It's called sometimes called the Fermi paradox, after great physicist Enrico Fermi. >> Yeah. >> Uh but, the paradox is they should we should see evidence of other civilizations. If you get If you were to guess, you would say there's a hundreds of billions of We think there's something like 10 to 20 billion potentially Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. 10 to 20 billion. And and, you know, the galaxy's been around for the age of the universe, 10 billion years plus. >> Yeah. >> So, it seems there should be civilizations far in advance of us. >> Yeah. >> And yet, the paradox is we haven't seen any evidence of them. I know people who are watching this going, "Yeah, there's this flying saucer in the desert in Roswell or whatever." But, there So, as far as I know, [laughter] anyway, there isn't, right? >> Yeah. >> Uh so, so the observation we have, at least from our scientific program of looking, which is entirely sensible, we haven't seen any evidence of anything.