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r/FermiParadox

9.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 562 upvotes, which works out to 61 per 1,000 members.

61peak upvotes per 1,000 members
9.3Kmembers
562best post
414most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 58% Question 35% Link 4% Image 2% Video 1%

The topics it labels

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Self 90 Article 1 Crosspost 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Out of 50 billion species Earth ever had, only one looked up and left the planet — here’s why that might solve the Fermi Paradox

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I am fascinated by the ant hill theory

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Please explain what makes the Fermi Paradox a paradox.

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THE GREAT SILENCE ISN’T A PARADOX

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The First Civilization Theory

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Maybe the Fermi Paradox Isn’t a Paradox at All — We Just Can’t Afford to Leave Our Star Systems

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Considering the billions of years it takes for higher life to evolve, is it simply that life rarely overlaps?

↑ 134 💬 124 question 2025

A new study proposes advanced alien civilisations might reside near massive black holes

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Nearly all intelligent life lives in oceans.

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The Fermi Paradox assumes we'd recognize alien intelligence if we met it. We share a planet with one and only learned to read it in the last decade.

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