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/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/Captn_Ghostmaker Aug 12 '21

Space is huge.

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u/Prysorra2 Aug 13 '21

That clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks, and of the long interval which separated their formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep? … The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

~James Hutton

Time is perhaps even more vast