Original artwork description:

Scientists have calculated the probability that there is no one else in the universe but us. And it turned out that the chances of our loneliness are vanishingly small — less than one divided by 10 to the 22nd power.

And then the scientist Enrico Fermi spoke up and said, " Well, where are they in this case?". This is how the term "Fermi Paradox" appeared.

And astronomer Dimitar Sasselov concluded that there is no one smarter than us, earthlings. And if there are brothers in mind somewhere else, it is unlikely that their civilization is more developed than ours, i.e. its capabilities are just as limited. It means that aliens could not have arrived in the past. And it is naive to expect them in the near future. Just like they did us.

Two years before his death, K. E. Tsiolkovsky, in a philosophical note that had not been published for a long time, formulated this paradox and proposed the zoo hypothesis as its solution.

There are a million billion suns in the known universe. Therefore, we have as many planets similar to the Earth. It is incredible to deny life to them. If it originated on Earth, then why would it not appear under the same conditions on planets similar to Earth? They may be less than the number of suns, but they still have to be. You can deny life on 50, 70, 90 percent of all these planets, but on all of them-it is absolutely impossible.
What is the basis for the denial of intelligent planetary beings of the universe? We are told that if they were, they would visit the Earth. My answer: maybe they will, but the time has not yet come for that. The time must come when the average degree of human development will be sufficient for the heavenly inhabitants to visit us. We're not going to visit wolves, venomous snakes, or gorillas. We only kill them. The perfect animals of heaven do not want to do the same with us"
- K. E. Tsiolkovsky. "The planets are inhabited by living beings»

Now live with it))
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-The painting is temporarily not for sale. Until the end of March, it is on display in Moscow in the gallery "Here on Taganka".
-The work from May 13 to June 14, 2021 is at the exhibition " Earth. Version 2021. What happened next?", State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Materials used:

oil on canvas

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