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itachi15243 posted...

And I'm saying that we wouldn't. Technology just isn't good enough to get a good detailed look at everything that may hold life in our galaxy.

That along with theories of that one star having an alien installation to make use of the stars power. We have no way to know right now. Just accept it.

What specifically about the fermi paradox do you find most unlikely?

He reasons, based on our improving understanding of theoretical engineering capacities, that an intelligent civilization not much more advanced than us could start and complete within 10,000 years (and perhaps orders of magnitude faster) a project of launching a sufficient number of replicators for universal colonization. Basically, the civilization could build a Dyson sphere around its star and harness that energy to build and launch trillions of von Neumann self-replicating probes toward all the galaxies in the observable universe. Stuart then observes that this makes the Fermi paradox "worse" because 10,000 years (or less) on cosmological scales is almost no time at all, suggesting that the critical path would be travel time (rather than any earlier stage in the project), and there's clearly been more than enough travel time available to the probes of any intelligent inhabitants of stars and galaxies older than our own.

http://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/02/do-dyson-spheres-and-von-neumann-probes.html