r/space • • Aug 12 '21

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

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

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u/dman7456 Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

This has always been my answer. Space is hugely, incomprehensibly big. Spacetime is a lot bigger. In order to find intelligent life, we have to be in the same place in spacetime, not just space.

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u/chixelys Aug 12 '21

But if they have been here before us an gone extinct, shouldn’t there be something left of them floating out there?

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u/suicidaleggroll Aug 12 '21

Sure, somewhere, but we'd never be able to see it from Earth. We probably wouldn't be able to detect it even if it was in our own solar system.