The Fermi paradox or Fermi’s paradox, named after Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates, e.g. those given by the Drake equation, for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.[1] The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) and Michael H. Hart (born 1932), are:
- There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun,[2][3] many of which are billions of years older than Earth.[4][5]
- With high probability, some of these stars will have Earth-like planets,[6][7] and if the Earth is typical, some might develop intelligent life.
- Some of these civilizations might develop interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
- Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in about a million years.[8]
According to this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial aliens. In an informal conversation, Fermi noted no convincing evidence of this, leading him to ask, “Where is everybody?”[9][10] There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox,[11][12] primarily suggesting either that intelligent extraterrestrial life is extremely rare, or proposing reasons that such civilizations have not contacted or visited Earth.
My thoughts are quite simply this: What race would want to contact us? If they read the papers or browsed our interwebs, do you think they’d want any part of humanity? :/
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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June 14, 2016 at 5:41 am
makagutu
A race of murderous and also of peace makers I guess
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June 14, 2016 at 7:27 am
Stig
We do seem to be the only beings filling outer space with our voice. But that may be nothing more than a technical issue. It has only recently been discovered that fish communicate through sounds that we cannot hear without the proper tech and that the oceans are actually teaming with voices. Give it time, we are getting closer everyday.
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June 14, 2016 at 3:15 pm
bleatmop
Personally I’ll go with the Mass Effect theory. Also, Mass Effect was made by a survivor who came here and is trying to warn us of the Reapers.
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June 14, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Miep
Right. They sit around at their interstellar cocktail parties talking about us. “Oh god, *those* people. What are they doing *now*?
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June 14, 2016 at 5:37 pm
Sha'Tara
Absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence. By the way, agree with your conclusion here. However, I have another “theory” on why there have APPARENTLY been no contact from other civilizations, and that would be simply, remaining within a single universe that is supposed to have been kick-started by some “big bang” then basically everything is developing at the same rate, kind of like the pistol that starts a race, hence, best bet, we’ll met them more or less half-way. (tongue in cheek!)
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