The Fermi paradox - Makes us more Ambitious / How to turn questions into rocket fuel

Every night, billions of stars shine down on us. The galaxy should be singing with life. Yet, for now, we hear only silence.

In 1950, Enrico Fermi asked the question that still echoes in every dreamer’s heart: “Where is everybody?”

The numbers are overwhelming:

• 100–400 billion stars in the Milky Way

• At least 20% of them have habitable worlds (JWST 2025 data)

• The universe is 13.8 billion years old

  
  

Intelligent life should be everywhere. We haven’t found it yet. But that silence does not mean we are alone — only that we are among the very first to wake up.

And waking up early is the greatest privilege any generation has ever been given.

The Fermi Paradox forces us to question the great universe as having two options — we are either alone or we are not. Both are terrifying, and both suddenly give us a bigger purpose.

If Earth is the only planet, we need to treasure it more. For our survival in the far future of the universe, we must build an oasis on Earth and go to other planets where we can go further, especially since 20% of the universe is habitable.

My Personal Fermi Exercise (Do this tonight — you have 2 minutes to write down)

1. Write down the three biggest positive impacts you could have on Earth and beyond.

   • Examples: Build clean-energy systems that outlive nations; Raise conscious children who will raise conscious children; Create knowledge and tools that help humanity reach the stars.

2. Next to each, write what it will really take: Money. People. Skills. Time. Courage.

3. Write your three strongest natural qualities that will carry you there.

   • Example: curiosity · persistence · ability to connect people.

This exercise turned cosmic silence into pure rocket fuel.

Most importantly, I have asked: What are ways to prolong civilization, and what are the current existential threats?

Three things that contribute to civilizational success in 100 years from now

1. Science, complemented with technology. Working together.

2. Innovation fueled with love of all sorts, through innovation with the right knowledge — leading to all breakthroughs.

3. Mars colonisation — and this being only the first step.

   
   

In this stance, I always knew that these advancements help civilisation and Earth, and I made myself part of this — through study, work, and social circles.

Then I asked myself: What are the rooms and the people I need to be with who truly understand what brings us forward to prolonging life in the universe and prolonging my own existence as well?

Whenever faced with two striking questions or two opposites, I rewrite the negative with something positive and simply refuse to accept the negative — and prove it wrong if needed.

So, when I come back to the question of why people say both scenarios are terrifying, I long for what has proved with time to be good, precious, righteous, and justifiable. For me, the more terrifying possibility is that we are alone.

And as I write in my book: “I have not come to this world alone, nor shall I ever be alone, unless I am sent alone to Mars, but even then I will know that I am not alone.”

Whether life exists in similar form or not should be equal to whether there are other habitable planets and solar systems or not — and we know that there are. With the exact same elements. And the exact same elements that existed in the earliest stages of the universe — Helium and Hydrogen — are the elements making up most of the matter right now.

The question of why we haven’t found any life yet is that our civilisation is pretty young compared to the scale of the age of the universe, and we should, with all our love and being, ensure to prolong this civilisation forever, to infinity.

People say both possibilities are terrifying. I say only one would be: the idea that we might waste our turn. We are not alone. We are the opening chord for us, and there might be someone else.

If you are one, who likes building and starts a song: Thank you!

I choose to be part of that first note. I choose to make some noise.

Now it’s your turn.

Look up tonight. Write your three impacts. Then start singing.

The galaxy mind is not silent.