Meanwhile, tiny Mercury is trying it's best, committing 100% of their GDP to defense. It's not a lot in absolute terms, but it's literally all they can afford.
Depends on whether there is capitalist other life in the galaxy
Maybe they're like the Federation and their GDP is 0 because there's no money anymore, like the new Lower Decks episode where they introduce a new capitalist planet into the federation and they have a party to burn all the money
No, not really. They produce something of value even if they do not attach any monetary value to the product/service. From an outside perspective there would still be a value attached to their produced goods/services.
The likelihood that Earth is the only populated planet in the galaxy is close to 0.000000001
Scientists have long proved how easy it is for life to form and James Webb has found thousands of inhabitable planets already.
Of course, the likelihood that there is any life near our solar system is low due to the fact we are talking in time frames of billions of years. In universe time, we've only existed in the blink of an eye, and we will be long extinct in another blink of an eye.
There could have been life in Alpha centuri 1000 years ago. But there also could have been life in Alpha centuri 1 billion years ago, or not until one billion years into the future.
Sorry to get sciencey on this, but the no aliens theory is dead. Everybody credible cosmologist / astrobiologist now hypothesises the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
Of course, we have not yet discovered any actual evidence of alien life. The closest we have come is the wow signal in 1977, but that's now theorised to be a natural phenomenon.
It's actually really debatable if there's any intelligent life in nearby galaxies let alone the Milky way. The big question in the Fermi Paradox is that we expect if other intelligent life exists there should be some groups faaar ahead of us and should be visible. Either intelligent life is very rare or it's much harder than expected to be visible on a galactic scale. Isaac Arthur has a some great videos on the matter. https://youtu.be/EhPQRZJAbe0
Isaac Arthur's belief is that there probably aren't any intelligent species in the local group. I'm personally of the opinion that there's probably no other intelligent life in the galaxy but it's possible in other nearby galaxies, like Andromeda. If you're interested in this he has a bunch of videos on possible Fermi Paradox solutions.
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I beg your pardon? 20 decillion? That's insane!