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  • I never understood why Fermi should be a paradox.

    Space is mind-bogglingly big. Insanely huge. And almost everything is empty. Primitive life (bacteria, fungus,…) might evolve on every other planet, but even mammal like life is probably not that common. Maybe 1 in 10k solar systems has them?

    And now my sad hypothesis: FTL drives are simply not possible.

    Also, did I mention space is huge? Sending radio signals to a planet 10k ly away is very non trivial. Unless they point a huge dish exactly at us and we point a huce dish exactly to them, we won’t hear each other.

    The idea that extraterrestials will watch our TV in 100k years is absurd. (Sorry Lrrrr)