[boris]

"I could go on. The point of the matter is that your original thesis is a fallacy."

You need to educate yourself before you shoot your mouth off. For example, read THIS.

[AntiGuv]

I have read Rare Earth, as a matter of fact.. Read my succeeding posts, particularly #57.

[AntiGuv]

I did make one repeated, unfortunate error however - which was equating a particular conclusion of Fermi's Paradox (that no other civilizations have ever existed) with the Paradox itself. Fermi's own conclusion was quite different, I might add: that interstellar travel is either impossible, or at least so difficult that nobody undertakes it because it is not worth the effort.