[joe_the_user]

So traveling at 1% of the speed of light, you could go end to end in 10,000,000 years. That sounds like a long time, but it's really not.

Human have no way to survive that time period, no way to create a self contained environment that would survive that time period and no civilization that's lasted a fraction of that time. The increase of human technology hasn't correlated with stability so increases in our technology don't seem like arguments for our ability to act in a long and large scale, despite being implicitly taken as such by a lot of people.

Sure, in the geological time humans study ten million years isn't much but the claim that a living creature could act in the time period is purely speculative. Speculation is fine but the rhetoric of the "Fermi Paradox" is "why don't I see of things I have only wildly speculated about, there's something weird here", which is kind of problematic.