@[email protected] Welllll… why are we studying lemurs, fungi, asteroids, religions, cockroaches, languages, jellyfish, music, viruses, ball lightning, cloud formations, rocks, seaweed, food, and basically everything else there is to see or imagine?

My solution to the Fermi paradox is: they’re cringing at our ceaseless churning-out of increasingly desperate and speculative solutions to the Fermi paradox. :P