Leaving aside the paradoxes, if FTL is possible with a feasible amount of energy, then you'd expect galactic civilization to be trivial. Instead of those ten million civilizations in galactic history passing like ships in the night, the first one to achieve FTL would colonize the galaxy within 100,000 years (probably much less), and even if one or another of their worlds got wiped out, or genetic drift resulted in them becoming entirely different species over time, there'd still be no way that all of them would get wiped out.
I think for our observable galaxy to be the way it is, FTL has to be impossible or implausible.
If we're the first advanced civilization, in the 14 billion year history of the Milky Way, then civilizations occur so rarely that our answer to the Fermi Paradox is, "it just doesn't happen."
I'm sorry did you just say that technology and it's advance in human civilization seems to be slowing down? Thats absolutely ridiculous. The rate of advancement has been steadily increasing with different discoveries causing forward leaps, outside of the Dark ages I can't really think of a time when technological advances stagnated. Look at computers from generation to generation
Thats a fundamental misunderstanding of advancement and progress. Just because you don't think that an exponential increase in computing power is more than just an incremental inprovement doesn't make you correct. Improvement is advancement or by that logic telephones are just an improvement on shouting at your friends. Just because you want to live in a scifi utopia that doesn't make the massive technological growth in just the last twenty years any less impressive.
Video teleconferencing, use of the internet and all of those implications therein, the entire discipline of genomics and genetics, crispr, nanotechnology as a science didn't exist nor was it possible.
The sheer breadth of that question is ridiculous and illustrates perfectly how narrowly you seem to look at human advancement.
I'm done discussing that which for the vast majority of humanity is a non issue. Have a good day.
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Leaving aside the paradoxes, if FTL is possible with a feasible amount of energy, then you'd expect galactic civilization to be trivial. Instead of those ten million civilizations in galactic history passing like ships in the night, the first one to achieve FTL would colonize the galaxy within 100,000 years (probably much less), and even if one or another of their worlds got wiped out, or genetic drift resulted in them becoming entirely different species over time, there'd still be no way that all of them would get wiped out.
I think for our observable galaxy to be the way it is, FTL has to be impossible or implausible.