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I'd say a good example of a silent majority is "people who don't hate Mayor Adams". If you read reddit or the comments of any news article you'd think he's LITERALLY HITLER, but turns out most people just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Seems like a silent majority candidate

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I really enjoy how you blended politics with science.

As to the Fermi Paradox, I learn more toward the notion that was are just early in the universe’s history.

At this very moment, there are thousands of civilizations out there, scanning the skies for hints of life, all hearing silence. The don't hear each other because none of them have been around long enough for the signals to reach one another.

But one day, maybe, we will hear each other at more or less the same time. Only then will we know that the universe has bloomed.

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Very much like the Enlightenment and the bloom of free societies--they all came about suddenly from the perspective of history.

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Yep. Historically also, a lot of new technologies were invented simultaneously by different groups of people. It's almost as if, when the conditions are right, these things are inevitable.

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Damn loved the mixing of the Fermi Paradox and how it ties into politics :)

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