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Or perhaps this is a grim answer to Fermi's Paradox: the galaxy is quiet because someone preemptively wiped out the competition a long time ago. Except us?

• chc 16y ago
  I think the implication is that we're (possibly alone) among the first crop of life to spring up since this hypothetical galactic holocaust.
• pmiller2 16y ago
  Maybe it was so long ago, "we" (meaning life on Earth) weren't considered "competition."