Where are all the extraterrestrial civilizations The Fermi Paradox reveals a mindblowing mystery
Channel: spacecam
Date: 31/07/2023

The Fermi Paradox argues that if there are such high estimates of life in the universe where is everybody The basic point of the paradox is this There are billions of stars that are billions of years older in our galaxy alone Surely some of these stars have Earth-like planets Assuming the Earth is typical some of these planets have developed intelligent life And at least a few of these civilizations should have developed means for interstellar travel But even if they have a very slow method of interstellar travel the galaxy could be completely colonized in just a few tens of millions of years That may sound like much but given how some of these civilizations could have existed for billions of years that time scale is nothing