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In 2018, a team at Penn State calculated how much of the searchable cosmos SETI has actually covered: the equivalent of a hot tub's worth of water out of all the Earth's oceans. We checked a hot tub and concluded the ocean has no fish.

This piece examines four independent lines of evidence, from cyclic cosmology (Penrose, Steinhardt-Turok) to the Wright et al. cosmic haystack paper to cross-cultural accounts to the Pentagon-confirmed Nimitz encounter, and argues that the Fermi Paradox rests on a set of assumptions that don't survive scrutiny.

Fully sourced.