This movie never addressed the Fermi Paradox

We have barely even begun to see the closest planets, the observable sci-fi stuff like Dyson spheres or death stars may not even be feasible or commonplace. Not to mention that the fastest alien crafts may not even be that fast or they didn't even try since merely spreading around without communications, travel or trade possibilities aren't really meaningful. Or they didn't even survive that long as is mentioned in the movie. Maybe they advance to beings made of energy or whatever before they reach that point even. Endless possibilities.

It addresses in form of the Zoo Hypothesis, where aliens keep primitive cultures isolated.

I must admit I have not heard of the Fermi paradox.

But although our galaxy has "only" 100000 light years in diameter, it contains 100 billions of stars. To me it seems already by the incredible hugeness of numbers impossible to colonize everything.

Let's say on the planets of one out of a million of those stars, a form of life with some kind of tech level like ours evolves (we know nothing of this probability factor). (So in that case there would be 100000 of such civilizations in our galaxy.) (This movie suggests a much higher factor btw, with aliens already at 26 light years distance).

Then still fewer develop the tech to travel to other stars. Then I suppose going colonize another star system is not a finger click, especially if it's really at low speed, and the jump takes 50000 earth years. And for every
expedition, they have less than one out of a million chance to encounter another civilization, with my example factor.

Also, many civilizations may disappear before their first jump to another star. Like if tomorrow starts World War III here, we are done.

And I have not talked about other galaxies yet.

So I think there are, and have been, many, many "others" throughout the universe. Some may have met, but not with us, and maybe that's never going to happen just for the big numbers. I could hardly believe the results of a recent Imdb poll "are we alone in universe?" where the big majority voted: yes, there are no others.

The Fermi Paradox makes a lot of assumptions, one of which is that we should be able to detect communications between advanced aliens. Another is that alien species would have the urge/need to spread as far & as fast as possible.

The Fermi Paradox, like the Drake Equation, contains so many variables as to render any conclusions purely speculative.

One immediate problem with Fermi is that any intelligent life forms developing under the ground surface or submerged in liquids on any planet, would likely perceive no necessity to communicate off-planet for extremely long periods compared with surface-dwelling beings such as ourselves with direct sensory perceptions of astronomical objects outside the native planet.


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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.

Everyone assumes that there are advanced beings, more advanced then we are. But I believe the Fermi Paradox even states that perhaps WE are the most advanced beings in the universe right now, and there is some planet somewhere that has beings banging sticks on rocks right now. Its possible

The answer is simple really. It is impossible to travel long distances through space. It is impossible to communicate long distances through space. No species in the universe has been able to do it yet because it is impossible. Yes we have theories of how it might be done, but if it could be done we would have seen aliens by now. The only conclusion possible is that those theories on how long distance space travel and communications could be done are wrong.
We are not alone in the universe, but because we can never reach those other aliens, we may as well think of ourselves as alone.

I don't think we have enough evidence to state that most alien races would be much more advanced than us. Sure there's a thin probability that some really are more advanced than us, but even so, they'd be incredibly rare at least in our galaxy. Organic life forms require carbon or nitrogen, for which is necessary that primordial stars to explode and reorganize into planets like ours, so, it's pretty much safe to say that in our Milky way there's low probability of existing planets any older than about 10B years, and even so, there's an even lower probability that they could have enough sustainability to last until an advanced civilization is formed.

For all we know, we could actually be some of the first rare life forms to ever get into space.