Passage 1 suggests that the Fermi Paradox depends
most directly on which assumption?
(A) Extraterrestrial civilizations may not wish to be
discovered by human beings.
(B) Extraterrestrial civilizations would most likely
have discovered technology at about the same
time human beings discovered it.
(C) Extraterrestrial technology would develop at
roughly the same rate as human technology.
(D) Extraterrestrial civilizations would inevitably
use technology for aggressive ends.
(E) Science is a more powerful form of human
knowledge than are art and literature.

The Fermi paradox refers to the disagreement between the lack of clear, obvious evidence for extraterrestrial life and various high estimates for its existence.
According to a 2015 article, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have called by now."
Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist, is associated with the paradox as a result of a casual conversation with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski in the summer of 1950.
Walking to lunch, the men talked about recent UFO sightings and the possibility of faster-than-light travel.

To find the correct option:

"According to Fermi's argument, it is extremely unlikely that many other civilizations discovered science at the same time we did.
If they had discovered science even a thousand years before us, they could be so far ahead of us that they are already colonizing our solar system." -
This statement from the first passage implies that the Fermi Paradox's basic assumption is that extraterrestrial technology will develop at the same rate as our technology.
Fermi's argument maintains the above-quoted claim that extraterrestrial technology develops at the same rate as a human technology.
As a result, C is the best option.

Therefore, Fermi Paradox depends most directly on (C) extraterrestrial technology would develop at roughly the same rate as human technology.

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