So far as we know now. But what we know now is doubtlessly incomplete.

My pet theory is that if you zoomed out far enough, we're all (meaning us and any other distant life) sub-organisms that make up a much, much larger organism...and in turn, that larger organism is a sub-organism of another much, much, much, much larger organism.

Harold White and Sonny Judy, plus Miguel Alcubierre would all like words about that.

You sound like the doubters on the beach at Kitty Hawk.

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VG has raised a shit ton of money that they are burning.

Not sure why its complex, one company has money the other doesn't.

Neither has a future, but one still has money.

Why do you think FTL is solvable?

There is nothing indicating FTL is solvable, except fiction.

travelling at or near lightspeed isn't necessary as a component of the Fermi Paradox so not being able to travel at those speeds can't be a solution to it.

I was just thinking that. It gives me a strange feeling looking at this and I love it. It made me think that God created all of this and heaven would be a place somewhere in that cluster hopefully lol. I wish there wasn't so much light pollution around where I live because I want to get a nice telescope to look at this stuff. I might get one anyways I would just have to travel out to nowhere and camp for the night.

There's this and also time. Advanced civilisations could have risen and perished in billions of years. It only took us something like a billion years from simple multi-celled organisms to space flight. And it's really a tiny speck of time we've been sending out radio waves or anything that might be picked up by someone.

There could have been inhabitants a couple of solar systems over and we'd probably never know (at least not yet).

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Rare earth, Great Filter, light speed being max speed, space to vast to explore combined with no actual point in exploring space with probes.

A combination of those.

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That's true. It's slightly longer than "brief."

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The great filter is a possibility, but an interstellar civilization would have not only solved FTL, but FTL communication as well. Using current techniques and technology would be effectively like trying to use smoke signals in places of satellite communication.

My bet is we can't find them because we're too technologically primitive to even notice them, let alone communicate.

That's not really the issue wrt The Fermi Paradox. It's not asking why seti searches haven't found any intelligent life out there. It's asking why isn't intelligence already evident everywhere.

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This always brings me back to the Dark Forest Theory . Wild for the imagination but I think the simpler one of space=humangous big is much more likely.

Either were alone or were not

Either option is terrifying

Dude it's like if I would imagine you could see the heavens from earth, this is what I would expect it to be like.

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They're hallucinations.

I recommend getting that checked with a psychologist.