The Fermi Paradox Solved: Aliens refuse to make first contact because humanity pays $40/month for QR codes

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Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked: "If intelligent extraterrestrial life is common in the cosmos, where is everybody?" The answer is simple: Extraterrestrial civilizations have intercepted Earth's internet traffic and observed the Online QR Code Generator Industry. Imagine being an advanced civilization observing a planetary civilization from orbit: The humans engineered global fiber-optic cables and large multimodal AI models. Yet, when an Earth business needs to link a printed paper flyer to a website, venture-backed startups convince them to route the traffic through a dynamic redirect

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