Fermi Paradox Explorer

Where is everybody? The famous Drake Equation suggests there should be billions of intelligent civilizations, but so far we only observe a single civilization - us. The Fermi Paradox asks... why?

🎯 Final Result: Detectable Civilizations in Milky Way

~1 civilization

Each step shows how many candidate civilizations survive each filter in roughly chronological order.

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