Fermi Paradox explained by Prof Brian Cox

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Prominent TV physicist Brian Cox explains the Fermi Paradox,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox



According to Prof Cox there are 7 reasons why the universe seems empty of aliens

1. Rare earth hypotheses - its rare for an earthlike planet to sustain life before some cataclysm
2. extinguished civilisations - civilisations arise and fall before they are able to set sail across the galaxy
3. technological singularity - they are here but we are unable to detect them (e,g nanocreatures or interdimensional)
4. vast distances - distances are too great for civilisations to meet each other
5. Quarantine hypothesis - technology advanced civilisations prefer to hide themselves
6. The great filter - civilisations like us reach a certain point and kill ourselves due to nuclear or biological weapons or climate damage
7. finally limits of biology - the events leading to evolution of life are so difficult the probability of reaching space tech status is negligible or close to impossible (the latter puts a lot of pressure on Elon Musk not to stuff it up for humanity).

But I think Cox missed one - Aliens are here, interacting secretly but they create a camouflage that masks what our sensors ability to detect them because we are too primitive to join the galactic federation. When we look out at the universe we are looking at a virtual simulation that looks to us as empty space

Seem like some good points. I would say, your addition at the end looks like a mix of cases (3) and (5) - they are here but we cannot see them (technological boundaries) and they intend us not to see them (quarantine)

Some people worship “science”

Others do not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-revelation/

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13001a.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theorems

I have been looking for spontaneous generation for twenty years without discovering it. No, I do not judge it impossible. But what allows you to make it the origin of life? You place matter before life and you decide that matter has existed for all eternity. How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter? You pass from matter to life because your intelligence of today cannot conceive things otherwise. How do you know that in ten thousand years, one will not consider it more likely that matter has emerged from life? You move from matter to life because your current intelligence, so limited compared to what will be the future intelligence of the naturalist, tells you that things cannot be understood otherwise. If you want to be among the scientific minds, what only counts is that you will have to get rid of a priori reasoning and ideas, and you will have to do necessary deductions not giving more confidence than we should to deductions from wild speculation.
Partially quoted in Louis Pasteur : Free Lance of Science (1950) by René Dubos, p 396

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
As quoted in The Literary Digest (18 October 1902)

I prefer number 8: They were all wiped out by Tah-Um. The reason why he hasn't targeted us yet is because he's still taking his 100,000 year nap after his previous successful extermination. As long as nothing wakes him up early, we'll be fine.

Or number 9: They were devoured by a Brethren Moon. The only way the same thing will happen to us is if we find a Black Marker in the crater where it landed and wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Religion will do the rest from there.

*** Oh yes, he disproved spontaneous generation (life must come from life).

SInce his time science has learned to accept plausibility that a warm puddle of organic matter can become "alive"

An interesting conundrum is a virus. When you seperate the viral coat from DNA you get two components that are not alive, But when you re-insert DNA into the protein coat then by some miracle it becomes a living virus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I'm disappointed. I thought Professor Brian Cox would have solved the Fermi Paradox by now.

Maybe Liu Cixin has the right answer with his dark forest theory.