Posted on 03/27/2021 4:07:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I think Fermi assumed that some civilization would have become advanced enough to build self replicating probes to fill up the galaxy with their presence over the course of millions of years. Maybe he just assumed that the desire to explore/expand is common or universal but was wrong, it’s really exceedingly rare.
Freegards
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