Where's the Aliens? A Biological Take on the Fermi Paradox

This video took surprisingly long to make since I'm splitting my attention over multiple projects at once. I hope you enjoy this kind of slop lmao. Here's the transcript since I don't know how to do subtitles: So, have you heard of the somewhat recent news regarding the supposed discovery of life on Mars? For most people, especially the general public since this story went viral, this find was a bombshell revelation from NASA in September of 2025, but if you’re like me however, your first reaction was probably that of a little shock followed by the realization that this was pretty in line with what we predicted given our current understanding of microbiology. We’ve already studied prokaryotes that can survive in high salt levels, or in the extreme cold, or in the irradiated vacuum of space, so the presence of remains from bacteria-like organisms on an icy salt desert not exceedingly far from Earth isn’t too surprising. The main thing I want to discuss is of a much broader scope than