Fermi Paradox (for 35-Year-Olds)

Planet Earth has more than 8,000,000,000 inhabitants. But where are my friends?

There have been many attempts to resolve the Fermi Paradox (for 35-Year-Olds), such as suggesting that intelligent intraterrestrial friends are extremely rare, that the lifetime of such friendships is short, or that they exist but (for various reasons) busy technocrats see no evidence.

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