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To: Candor7

The Fermi paradox

Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi’s name is associated with the paradox because of a casual conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski. While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi blurted out, “But where is everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain).

The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. As a 2015 article put it, “If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox


199 posted on 07/28/2023 11:03:40 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

It should be there.

But its not !

Did Fermi ever look around at the various races and genotypes living on earth and think that just maybe we are them? Lost in Space?

I remain on the empirical side of Fermi’s paradox.

Show me the meat!


200 posted on 07/28/2023 7:22:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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