The galaxy is empty and we haven't seen any aliens anywhere because none of them passed the great filter. Just like we are about not to.
At some point before reaching the interstellar travel point in technology development most civilizations destroy themselves like idiots and that is what we are about to do with our own nukes.
Then in some distant galaxy there will be some other alien race sitting on their planet wondering why the space is so empty, they already have their nukes too and just like us and like us think it impossible that at this point in history anyone would be dumb enough to destroy themselves. And yet here we go.
After dinosaurs and humans i hope the next specifies that takes over earth is catgirls.
I do believe that there is a point where the technology becomes so advanced that it allows the species to go beyond our current dimension. And that is the reason why there are literally NO ONE out there.
The fact that our civilization was able to distinguish between the set of statements that define the Fermi paradox and the set of statements that don't define the Fermi paradox essentially renders the paradox tautological in the grand scheme of affairs. It's a self referential loop that doesn't mean much anymore
Hudson Collins
The narrative we're fed about 'being more advanced than previous humans' is a lie. We have been in decline for hundreds of years now - coinciding with giving women rights, just as Rome.
if you think nukes are bad, imagine civilization in 200 years, where we might manage to create dark matter or something like that and accidently vaporize entire Earth. I'm certain that if humans were to live longer we would create stuff more powerful and destructive than nuclear weapons.
Dylan Perry
So? Not my problem.
Sebastian Wilson
the fermi paradox can easily be explained by c = const.
Jace Roberts
OP you are a retard, nukes are not launching any time soon. No one is glassing the earth for Ukraine.
Zachary Sanchez
But... But our neat toys.
Noah Flores
What if we're just early? A lot of stars are probably not conducive to developing life because gamma ray bursts keep cooking the planet, the star is unstable and cooks the planet, its too small to retain an atmosphere, tidally locked, etc.
Plus, a planet that's too large will make space travel unrealistic as it'll cost too much energy to even get off the planet. It's also unlikely that even if life evolved on watery "ocean" planets that it could develop space flight with no way of generating fire.
Owen Robinson
Post hoc explanations like the Fermi Paradox are fallacious.
Gabriel Bailey
>thousands of civilisations since the beginning of the universe were ended by a bald manlet rage it all makes sense
in the known universe alone there are trillions, yes trillions of planets very similar to earth
Leo Morales
I think humans are full of hubris. I don't believe there is anything humans can do to extinguish all life on earth. Life will go on, maybe not human, until some cosmic event destroys it, not humans.
True but we're still pretty young in the grand scheme of things. Once you start eliminating huge swathes of planets for various reasons, and think about all the things that had to go right for earth to develop sentient life and get off it, and consider that it might not be possible to cheat physics and travel faster than light in some way, then perhaps it isn't so surprising that we don't see signs of intelligent life
Benjamin Lopez
when they first turned on the hadron collider there was a small chance it would destroy the planet and the fags did it anyway
James Wood
the mighty mole will rule the earth
Michael Price
20 years from now all the brightest minds in diversity won't even be able to keep Windows updated. 200 years from now fact checkers will be debunking the existence of white people
Jose Mitchell
The reason for the Fermi Paradox might be that the universe is a simulation, and civilizations get deleted when they use up too many computational resources.
>A corollary of the Simulation Argument is that the universe’s computational capacity may be limited. Consequently, advanced alien civilizations may have incentives to avoid space colonization to avoid taking up too much “calculating space” and forcing a simulation shutdown. A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that analogous considerations may drive them to avoid broadcasting their presence to the cosmos, and to attempt to destroy or permanently cripple emerging civilizations on sight. This game-theoretical equilibrium could be interpreted as the “katechon” – that which withholds eschaton – doom, oblivion, the end of the world. The resulting state of mutually assured xenocide would result in a dark, seemingly empty universe intermittently populated by small, isolationist “hermit” civilizations.
>and travel faster than light we already know you can do that, not really with matter yet, but quantum entanglement will for example one day soon enable instant communication with zero delay literally anywhere in universe
