Answering the Fermi paradox
by @berni1954
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The Fermi Paradox states that given that our planet has only been around for about 3.5 billion years, while the universe has been around a lot longer than that, shouldn't that have given time for the first intelligent alien life to have developed to the point where they solved the problems associated with interstellar travel and consequently will have spread out across the galaxy, if not the entire universe. So, if that is the case: "Where are the aliens?"
Of course, there are several proposed answers to that, ranging from "We are the first and only" to "the others died out" or to the version I use in this song.
INSTRUMENT: Baton Rouge 8 String Baritone Ukulele
Lyrics
Intro: (Dm) (G) (Am)
(Am) The Earth is full of remnants
Of civili(Dm)zations now long gone
Lofty (Am) cultures that arose
and fell like (G) great Babylon
From the (F) Incas to the Aztecs
From (Am) Rome to Songhai
(Dm) Empires that collapsed
When (G) History moved (Am) on
Will there (F) ever be a moment
When the (Am) wars will finally stop
When un(F)ited we can spread out to the (C) stars?
Or are we (F) doomed to disappear
Des(Am)troying planet Earth
Till it's as (G) barren as our neighbour (Am) Mars?
(Am) The Galaxy's full of remnants
Of civili(Dm)zations now long dead
(Am) Ruins of alien races who
We (G) now will never meet
(F) Beings that built their worlds
And watched their (Am) last children die
(Dm) Patterns of destruction repli(G)cated on re(Am)peat
Maybe there (F) never comes that moment
All out (Am) conflicts lead to doom
So no (F) evidence of aliens we've (C) found
The (F) seeds of greed and avarice
Bear the (Am) fruits of tragedy
As our (G) folly poisons air and sea and (Am) ground
Comments
Another option as to the paradox, maybe the alien life evolved but into beings like dinosaurs or sludge and just stayed that way happily living out their lives without thinking about building space ships