The Fermi Paradox
I say good riddance! If we ever met them, I bet these aliens would probably deal with all our Facebook events by saying “going” when they mean “interested”, and “interested” when they mean “haha, nope”.
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“Oh, honey, we just don’t like you,” says the being three billion years in the future.
Fermi was a man looking through a keyhole into his backyard while insisting that elephants don’t exist because he couldn’t see one.
Or a quote from the best Marvel film to date: “You’re a man looking at the world through a keyhole. You’ve spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole… to see more, to know more. And now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can’t imagine, you reject the possibility.”