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I mean . . . yeah, we figured.
However the timing of them rolling these out to the Mexican Congress while they were hearing the same testimony about the UAP the Pentagon has been seeing, a month after that same information was presented to the US Congress, is kind of tragic.
Here we have several military witnesses following up an unprecedented statement that UFOs are real from the Pentagon (In 2021) and it should have been part of an international collaboration on the phenomena.
Except these jokers rolled out these dolls and spent all that media capital on bullshit. So no one even read about the UAP part of it.
UFOs have always been real, they've never been alien. It's just an unknown object of phenomenon being detected.
An alien civilization sophisticated enough to travel to earth would be emitting radios waves for hundreds if not thousands of years prior. Earth is covered in a wide array of telescopes pointed at space and we haven't heard anything yet. In fact some suspected cases turned out to be microwaves in the break room and oscillating black holes, none aliens.
It's likely we are the first sophisticated civilisation able to travel to another planet, and we are no where near travelling outside our solar system never mind our galaxy.
You realize humans have only had the ability to search for aliens using electronic equipment for less than 200 years right?
The universe is ~14 billion years old. The earth is only ~4 billion years old. Humanity is only ~200,000 years old.
You need to read about the Fermi paradox. The likelihood of extraterrestrial life existing is a mathematical certainty. We just haven't seen any due to a multitude of factors.
You're mixing up the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation.
Assuming you meant the Drake equation, more than half of the variables we have absolutely no statistical basis to decide on a fraction. Obviously they are non-zero, but they could be extremely improbable. We only have one example of intelligent life developing radio communications. Any estimate of a statistical likelihood of that using Earth as an example is meaningless without other examples.
Some pessimistic estimates give solutions as small 9.1 x 10^-13 which indicates we would be alone.
The Fermi Paradox riffs on the optimistic answer to Drake's Equation. If other intelligent life is a certainty, why haven't we found them yet?