So now that we've discovered life on Venus, it seems clear to me that enrico fermi's paradox has been BTFO once and for all. Here is my hypothesis:
>Simple/Microbial life is common in the universe
>Intelligent life is extremely rare
>Intelligent life that reaches a hyper advanced technological level is so unbelievably rare that any such civilizations are separated by hundreds of millions or billions of years in-between their time of existence.
Q.E.D.
>Simple/Microbial life is common in the universe
>Intelligent life is extremely rare
>Intelligent life that reaches a hyper advanced technological level is so unbelievably rare that any such civilizations are separated by hundreds of millions or billions of years in-between their time of existence.
Q.E.D.