[ExI] fermi paradox just got worse

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2026-08-08 12:07, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> I didn't believe the suggestion that an advanced civilization would
> decide to send out thousands of small, cheap probes to explore the
> galaxy. I asked Qwen AI to review the video. Qwen found the original
> paper that the video referred to and also thinks that thousands of
> probes is unlikely to happen.
> So the Fermi Paradox didn't get worse!  :)
> Full Report belo

Regarding ET probes already being here in our solar system monitoring 
us, here is an old 1960's Nature paper on the topic.

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1038/186670a0

Such probes might be inclined to try to get our attention by repeating 
our own radio transmissions back to us. This is a possible explanation 
for the mysterious long delay echoes, where radio transmissions echo 
many seconds or even minutes after they are transmitted that has been 
noted by radio operators since the 1920's. To date, there has been no 
satisfying explanation given.

Here is a video where a ham radio operator demonstrates the phenomenon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcsQS0BJW6w

In any case, how can we be sure there aren't already probes here?

Stuart LaForge