Science
22 min
The Fermi Paradox: Where Is Everybody?
If intelligent life exists, why is the universe so quiet?
Our galaxy has had over ten billion years to brew intelligent life. Statistically, the Milky Way should be teeming with interstellar civilizations. Instead, we find a deafening silence. Unpacking the Fermi Paradox reveals a spectrum of explanations that range from the incredibly rare to the deeply disturbing.
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One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.