Rusty Corgi<p>This might be an ill-informed hot take, but why is the Fermi Paradox such a mystery? :blobfoxthinking: Light is relatively slow, and the only way to travel at or above the speed of light is using some kind of exotic matter that creates negative mass, which just doesn't exist. It just seems like the easy solution is that life is somewhat rare, intelligent life is rarer still, intelligent life with a planet that's possible to escape the gravity from is even rarer than that, and then there's just the inescapable reality that it's impossible to travel between stars in any kind of reasonable amount of time.</p><p>It doesn't seem like we need any kind of "great filter", it's just that the universe is huge. :meowshrug: </p><p><a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://cubhub.social/tags/FermiParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FermiParadox</span></a></p>