Webb? Wrote a book listing forty-nine possible solutions to Fermi’s Paradox – and demolished them one by one, leaving only the fiftieth solution, namely: we’re alone?” He looked as if he’d chased his lemon with milk. “Webb was an idiot. His analysis presumed that if other life did exist, it could not be more intelligent than him. It was the characteristic flaw of the entire PreCollapse millennium: the assumption of vastly more knowledge than they actually possessed.