Tony Sivori wrote:

Victor wrote:

For those interested enough to pick up a good book on the subject:

Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the
Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
by Stephen Webb
Publisher:  Copernicus Books
ISBN:  0387955011
Publishing Date:  2002
Pages:  288
Format:  Hard cover

Hey my local library has that (I just checked its website). I'm going to
read that one as soon as I finish James Oberg's Star Crossed Orbits.

I second the recommendation.  Good book.

I am amused by this solution to the Fermi Paradox (don't remember if it's
in the book):  a sufficiently advanced civilization constructs
simulations of versions of its early history (for anthropological research,
say).  The total population of these simulations vastly exceeds the population
of the actual early history.  Therefore, your average randomly selected
person who observes himself to be in such a primitive
situation is actually in a simulation -- and the simulations have
excluded aliens (for now).

    Paul