Comment by stephc_int13
3 hours ago
I also feel that a good solution of the Fermi Paradox is that interstellar travel is either impossible or too unpractical at scale and that humanity may be trapped in this system forever.
3 hours ago
I also feel that a good solution of the Fermi Paradox is that interstellar travel is either impossible or too unpractical at scale and that humanity may be trapped in this system forever.
I believe that that Fermi Paradox is not a paradox at all. It's just a poor set of assumptions. Life is likely extremely rare, and intelligent life is likely astronomically rare.
Technological interstellar traveling life does not appear to exist anywhere in our Local Group.
The Local Group is only 10M light-years across. A single technological species that had arisen on any of the trillions of planets, traveling at 10% the speed of light, would only need a 100M years to colonize the entire Local Group!
We are alone, or at least the first. This is a good thing if you look at how we treat "lower" species on our own planet.
The Fermi Paradox is about the (intelligently-created) radio silence, not the lack of little green tourists. We'd eventually notice an advanced civilization in a period that intersects our time/distance coordinates (i.e., if Alpha Centaurians had radio 4-1/2 years ago, we'd probably hear it).
But otherwise, yeah, we're imprisoned here by 'c'.