/sci/ - Science & Math

The Fermi paradox is bullshit because it assumes evolution is linear and progresses towards intelligence when we know that's not fucking true at all and we've known that for like a hundred years. Evolution will happily make you dumb and blind if that's more adaptive. Being a super intelligent social animal with insane dexterity is such a narrow fucking ecological niche that it's a miracle it happened at all. There's your answer, being smart enough to build a radio telescope doesn't actually help you survive in 99.99% of situations. Life is probably super common, but we might be the only technological species in our galaxy.