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The Fermi Paradox is essentially this: If the odds for intelligent life are so good, then why haven’t we met any aliens? The Paradox lists theories why. Personally, I think either they’re here and we don’t know about it, or we don’t know how to look. Casey Handmer has a new theory – we can’t observe approaching aliens fast enough:

when we look out into the universe we are observing only our past light cone….So even though aliens might be quite close, we wouldn’t see them until just before they arrived……if the aliens we see are traveling at high speed toward us, the intermediate state (seen but not met) is unlikely to be longer than a handful of weeks.
— Read on caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/notes-on-the-fermi-paradox/

Sure, why not? For a while the Fermi paradox was my favorite Wikipedia article. There’s a lot to digest in it. Speaking of which, the comments on Casey Handmer’s post are interesting.