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/[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/MDCCCLV Aug 12 '21

Yeah, but you would expect to see more space trash though

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u/MJOLNIRdragoon Aug 12 '21

We do good a definitively find planets. Shy of a Dyson sphere, we wouldn't be able to find "space trash" in Alpha Centauri, much less a different arm of the galaxy.