@futurebird I was never very impressed with the Fermi paradox, TBH. It seems to assume extraterrestrial life must exist, which strikes me as more an article of faith than a scientific observation.
"But statistically--!"
Statistically, a planet has a 1/n chance of having life, where n is the number of planets we've explored thoroughly enough to say for certain whether or not it has life. And, okay, that's P=1, but our sample size isn't exactly great.