The Fermy Paradox

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

– Arthur C Clarke.

Now that you have just seen the above line, I am sure you have a slight idea what this article is going to be about.

So,”Mr Arthur C Clarke”, thanks for the quote bro (to be honest I don’t know who the fuck this guy is. I just took this line out of Internet randomly just to grab your attention, but Okay!).

I’ll start with this simple question.

ARE WE ALONE IN THIS UNIVERSE?

I wish this was actually a “simple” question.

The thing is, well.. We don’t know for sure.

We don’t know if there is an advanced Alien civilisation out there, in some distant galaxy with a highly sophisticated Technology that’s at least 1 million years ahead us.

But that’s not the only problem.

The real problem is that even if there is an alien civilisation, it might be simply too far away from us. And we will not be able to know about them either. And that’s for obvious reasons too, the Universe is freaking HUGE!

Let’s get started…

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