I've been working on a long-form piece arguing that the Fermi Paradox is built on broken assumptions. the part that'll probably resonate most with this community is the Vallée thread. Passport to Magonia basically laid out 50 years ago what most people are still catching up to, the phenomenon isn't new, it's been here throughout recorded human history, it just changes its costume depending on who's looking. Vedic texts describing flying vehicles, Mesoamerican gods descending from the sky, Celtic fairy abductions with the same structural elements as modern contact reports. same story, different mask.
the article also covers the cosmology side, cyclic universe models from Penrose and Steinhardt that suggest time might be infinite, the Penn State paper showing we've searched a hot tub's worth of ocean and called it a day, and the Nimitz encounter which still sits as 'unknown' in AARO's files even after they resolved most of their other cases as prosaic. four independent lines all pointing the same direction.
Curious what this community thinks about Vallée's observation that the phenomenon adapts to cultural context. that idea doesn't get enough serious discussion imo"
by snozberryface
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My solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there is no paradox. Occam’s Razor seems to point to the fact that there is in fact teeming life all around us, we just can’t perceive it all.