Huge point, and I wish more people were aware of this.
Here is the comprehensible radius of our (and presumably every other civilization that hits that stage) radio broadcasts.
Not the square, the tiny blue dot. That’s it.
I really, REALLY wish people would stop being so freaking Emo about this.
The universe could be absolutely full of civilizations far beyond ours and unless aliens decide to do something that we never have (we made up megastructures as a thought experiment) then we’d never be the wiser.
This comes up so much on a couple of other sites I frequent that I even put together an article hitting on a number of other reasons why Enrico Fermi is probably horrified at how silly we’re being in his name, especially since it’s basically self-traumatization in most cases.
The Tale of Enrico Fermi and the Paradox that Never Was.
Seriously guys. The universe is almost definitely awesome, it’s just not adhering to fantasies we made up when we thought traveling to another planet would be just like getting on a boat. The thought process behind Fermi’s Paradox is closer to Creationism than Science.
The default really shouldn’t be ‘OMGZ everybody diez’, right?
