Despot Aggression Could Be an Ominous Foretelling of the Answer to the Fermi Paradox

By Dr. Gary L Deel, Ph.D., J.D.

I’ve written previously about the Fermi Paradox. For those who are not familiar with this concept, below is a brief explanation.

Enrico Fermi was a twentieth century physicist who made an interesting observation about the universe around us, and specifically the apparent absence of other life beyond Earth. Fermi considered the age of the universe (roughly 14 billion years) and the size of our Milky Way Galaxy (roughly 100,000 lightyears across). He also considered the famous Drake Equation from astrophysicist Frank Drake, which suggests that, even under the most conservative estimates, there ought to be many thousands or even millions of worlds with life in the Milky Way.

Fermi then surmised that life which emerged much earlier in the timeline of the universe than Earth’s life did — many millions or even billions of years earlier perhaps — should be far advanced beyond our current capabilities. In fact, it should have had plenty of time to evolve, develop advanced spacefaring technology, and explore the galaxy. Fermi postulated that, even with spacecraft that could travel only a small fraction of the speed of light, a civilization which began exploring the galaxy millions or billions of years ago should have had plenty…