(July 19, 2015 at 7:15 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: I'd like to point out that Fermi was not an astronomer. His paradox isn't paradoxical.
(July 19, 2015 at 9:54 pm)ignoramus Wrote: That statement sounds like a paradox.
It wasn't a paradox, it was a bald assertion that aliens wouldn't exist unless they were here already. This eliminates aliens who lived long before us and those too far away to even know we are here.