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Enrico Fermi

  • If all solar systems are like ours, the galaxy should be teeming with life. (Brocken, Inaglory, Wikimedia Commons)
    Fermi's Paradox Part Two
    Walker Rhea
    According to reasonable estimates of how many stars have planets, how many planets may be suitable for the evolution of organisms, and so on, our Milky Way Galaxy should be brimming over with life.
  • Back in 1950 the Nobel prize‑winning physicist Enrico Fermi was having lunch with friends when conversation turned to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
    Fermi's Paradox
    Walker Rhea
    Probability would lead us to believe that extraterrestrial life does exist, so why have we not found any?