Andy Weir

It is extremely difficult for me to believe that, you know,

chemicals that end up making copies of themselves have only ever happened on one planet and one star in one galaxy in this entire universe.

I find that impossible to believe.

So I've got to believe there's life out there.

But the nearest life might be like two million light years away.

Also, I firmly believe that we will never be able to travel faster than light or send information faster than light.

People were coming up with ideas for, oh, maybe wormholes or quantum entanglement.

But no, I've looked into all that.

And no, you can't send information faster than light because the speed of light isn't just how fast photons go.

It is really the speed at which reality can affect its neighbors.

And so I just...

I just don't believe it'll be possible to travel faster than light.

So that's my answer to the Fermi paradox, by the way.

I was just going to say, you foreshadowed your answer to my next question, which is where is everybody?

They're too far away.

They're too far.

They're too far away.

Also, as an added downer, I will say I don't think there's any native life anywhere in our system other than Earth.

I don't think there's any native life on Mars because if there's life on a planet, it would be all over the damn place.

Life is very, very good at evolving to fill every niche everywhere.