Yes, and to be able to do with with some semblance of safety we would have to create some version of the alcubierre drive and keep it active until we're in a "safe" zone where local space is free of these objects.
I have always thought that the solution to the Fermi paradox is technological species are self destructive and any species that becomes technological only exists at that stage for a few hundred years at most.
I don't buy that. Interstellar travel (beyond the stellar neighbourhood within a few generations) is likel
y impossible. I see two reasons for that:
1. It requires too much energy, and an energy source needs to be carried with the craft. Lasers from Earth or other means of wireless energy transfer are short range, and fuel scooping wont work either: Not enough mass in interstellar space, and if it were, drag would prevent it from to work anyway. Obviously, anything chemical wont work as we just barely get things into orbit. Even if we find a way to fuse hydrogen to iron for maximum energy density and can convert 100% of that to kinetic energy, I think the maths will fail, since the practical way to travel is by 1 g accelleration to near-lightspeed and that will still require enormous amounts of hydrogen fuel. As for anti-matter fuel, still impossible. The mass needed to contain anti-matter likely outweighs the pure energy-mass itself by magnitudes of order. Warp drive is likely impossible for more than one reason, and its energy needs prohibitive by magnitudes of order.
2. Too dangerous. Even if we could make a 1 g drive reaching near light-speed, interstellar matter would kill passengers at a random time. A tiny grain would have enormous kinetic energy. And even if that wasn't a problem, random atoms in interstellar space would make travel at near-lightspeed like being inside the universe's most powerful particle accellerator. And passengers need to stay there for years.
People have known about the vastness of space and thought about interstellar travel for a century. Still, it appears that no one has yet presented calculations proving it possible.