Nice short piece on the Fermi Paradox in NYT, here. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who in 1950 pointed out that if there are billions of suns in our galaxy, and if even a tiny fraction of those suns have Earth-like planets, and if only a tiny fraction of those planets could develop human-like intelligent life, well, then our galaxy ought to be teeming with life, right? Fermi asks: Where is everybody?
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