Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big that you simply never get anywhere.
No message you send out ever gets far enough for anyone to see it. No ship you send out ever reaches another system. It’s just a big empty void.
You stay in your own lame system, browsing lame terrestrial memes and never escape.
The author Alastair Reynolds talks about this in his sci-fi opera books.
Pushing Ice is a great sci-fi novel.
I really don't want to spoil it, but Reynolds does have something of a solution to the problem of the speed of light being so limiting, and it's based on time dilation. As usual with all things sci-fi, it's not practical, but it's fairly unique and fun to read.
> Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big that you simply never get anywhere.
Yes, that is one of the hypothesis
Another is that technology ends up advancing so fast that the odds of a species blowing themselves up before they get beyond the stars approaches one.
what if you could move at 99.9999999999999999% speed of light though
Well, you can't. Way before you get anywhere near the speed of light, random hydrogen atoms floating in space become hard radiation that will rip you to shreds. The idea of manned ships traveling at those speeds is complete fantasy.
It's still too slow to go anywhere but the nearest solar systems to Earth, and even that would require you to spend a decade or two in space. For comparison, the longest continual time spent in space is 14 months.
HEY! I mean, the memes aren't terrible..
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