alt Hacker NewsMaybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big that you simply never get anywhere.
No message you send out ever gets far enough for anyone to see it. No ship you send out ever reaches another system. It’s just a big empty void.
You stay in your own lame system, browsing lame terrestrial memes and never escape.
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HelloUsername • today at 8:56 PM
> Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big that you simply never get anywhere.
Yes, that is one of the hypothesis
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hojdra • today at 8:15 PM
HEY! I mean, the memes aren't terrible..
freebsd_lovefes • today at 8:07 PM
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The author Alastair Reynolds talks about this in his sci-fi opera books.