Solutions for Fermi Paradox

Suggested event will be devoted to the "eerie silence" of the Universe.

Enrico Fermi was Italian physicist, who created the world's first nuclear reactor and was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In response to a lunch time discussion about extraterrestrials, he asked the question “Where is Everybody?” (i.e. where are extraterrestrials). This became known as the Fermi Paradox (1950). The basic points of the arguments are:

If there is nothing special about Earth or humanity, then whatever is true here should be true elsewhere in the galaxy.

There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun and some of these stars will have Earth-like planets. Some of them might develop intelligent life.

Following this reasoning, Frank Drake predicted the existence of tens of thousands of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations (ETC) and Carl Sagan likewise predicted perhaps a million ETC. At least some of these ETC’s must be millions or even billions of years more advanced than us. Some of these civilizations might develop interstellar travel, thus they should have already reached Earth and we should have detected their existence by now.

Something must be wrong with this chain of reasoning so, we will review about 30 solutions to the Fermi Paradox and even create our own solution.