My pet theory about Fermi’s paradox is that there was only ever a very brief moment in the history of our civilization where attempted contact was politically a

My pet theory about Fermi’s paradox is that there was only ever a very brief moment in the history of our civilization where attempted contact was politically and socially viable. Think about the Voyager project right now. Assembling a rep sample of all of human existence onto a single golden record and including the instructions to decode it in math. This. Could. Never. Happen. Today. No one could agree on what to include or exclude or how to execute it. There was an incredibly brief window of opportunity where we had the technology and the social capacity to reach out to interstellar neighbors. There are tons of other civilizations close by us. They just missed that very tiny window of a chance to say hello.