Bill Nye's Answer to the Fermi Paradox

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27. That doesn't seem to me to be a paradox at all considering the vastness and distances of space.

It just hasn't happened yet in the 70 years we've been listening from our relatively pin-point-sized

planet existing on an outer arm of a relatively small galaxy floating in an ocean of space a billion-fold

the size of our own Pacific.

Needle in a haystack doesn't even come close to the chances of our technological development

synching up with and recognizing communication from that of another civilization light years away.

The chance of it happening is remote but the chance that no other life forms exists out there on the

millions, maybe even billions or trillions of other planets out there is even more remote.

When we look at photos from the moon and Mars we see their surfaces are just dirt and rocks like here on earth. There is even evidence that there is or was water on Mars at one time.

If it happened here it has happened somewhere else.