A new study has looked into the so-called "red sky paradox" and the puzzling observation that intelligent life has sprung up on Earth so early in the Stelliferous Era of the universe. Analyzing the problems using Bayesian statistics, the suggested solutions are not pretty. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The only intelligent life we have observed lives around a G-type main sequence star , sometimes referred to as a yellow dwarf, or just "the Sun". This shouldn't be too surprising. We are around a star that is right for the conditions for life. If these conditions weren't present, we wouldn't be here to observe their inadequacy.

But our star is far from the most abundant type in the cosmos. M-dwarfs are far more abund

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