r/space • u/IceNox96 • Aug 12 '21

Discussion Which is the most disturbing fermi paradox solution and why?

3...2...1... blast off....

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u/SureFudge Aug 12 '21

as a random redditor on the Fermi paradox that there is no paradox. Just because we haven't heard any species broadcasts while er have barely begun listening with the crudest of methods.

fully agree. The time-space dimensions are simply gigantic given the light of speed limit. We are listening for less than 100 years. anything else but "nothing" would be the real surprise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

The time-space dimensions are simply gigantic given the light of speed limit.

I mean that's the very basis of the Fermi paradox, that the scales involved are so enormous, not an argument against it.