The Fermi Paradox - Why are we alone in space?

The galaxy should be teeming. It is silent. Every serious explanation is unsettling in its own way: maybe the filter is behind us, maybe it is ahead, maybe the forest is dark and full of hunters holding their breath. I toured all of them through the novels that taught me: Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, Iain M. Banks, Andy Weir, Orson Scott Card. With the Drake equation’s real numbers, four NASA images, and the candidate signal from Proxima Centauri that briefly scared everyone.

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