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> It makes an incorrect presumption;

It does no such thing. Your objections are in fact a possible answer to the "why" posed by the Fermi Paradox, but they are pure guesswork.

The entire point of the paradox is to illustrate that the common (at the time it was formulated) ideas about the likelihood of life elsewhere were clearly wrong in some way or other, but we don't know what we got wrong.

We still don't know what's wrong with them.




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