The Fermi Paradox Dilemma

The cosmic irony of the Fermi Paradox in one perfect meme! Top panel: "We are alone" - a lonely astronaut contemplating the vast emptiness of space. Bottom panel: "We are not alone" - and suddenly aliens are blasting our planet with a death ray. No wonder advanced civilizations stay quiet! They've seen our reality TV and decided we're either worth avoiding or worth eliminating. Maybe the great filter isn't technology destroying civilizations—it's civilizations attracting the wrong cosmic neighbors. The silence isn't emptiness; it's everyone hiding from the galactic HOA that fines you for having your death star visible from the street.