Maybe 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.

chneu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The author Alastair Reynolds talks about this in his sci-fi opera books.

	▲	cryptonector 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pushing Ice is a great sci-fi novel. I really don't want to spoil it, but Reynolds does have something of a solution to the problem of the speed of light being so limiting, and it's based on time dilation. As usual with all things sci-fi, it's not practical, but it's fairly unique and fun to read.

HelloUsername 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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

	▲	abofh 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Another is that technology ends up advancing so fast that the odds of a species blowing themselves up before they get beyond the stars approaches one.

hojdra 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HEY! I mean, the memes aren't terrible..

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