re: Do you believe in the Fermi Paradox: The Great Filter?

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In 20 years of space travel (sputnik 57 - Voyager 77) we launched Voyager. It is now in interstellar space some 14 billion miles from Earth, which is farther past Pluto than the distance from the sun to Pluto. If another civilization has maybe been around for maybe only 200 years longer than us who's to say what they can/are accomplishing.

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Man has made huge leaps in a relatively short period but interstellar travel within a lifetime is nowhere close to being feasible. The energy required to even travel at the speed of light is a huge obstacle. (Huge understatement)

Like in my OP, time seems to be the biggest hurdle. A planet being wiped out by asteroids isn’t that rare. Earth had a volcano kill all but about 10,000 people according to scientists.
Just the destruction of the Library of Alexandria may have set humans back centuries. *that is just an uneducated guess

The point is that it isn’t unreasonable to think other life forms in the universe would have similar problems.

But I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you because it’s a good chance what you posted is true. I just like discussions on this topic.