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Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that the reason for the Great Silence is that all the aliens have evolved beyond the need to explore! In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down …
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Another possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: we could all be living in some giant “nature preserve” where the aliens are monitoring us!
In this instalment, we explore the possibility that we haven’t heard from aliens because they’ve got us in a simulated environment where they can watch us!
In our latest instalment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven’t heard from aliens is because they’ve been wiped out by killer robots!
Is it possible that the aliens are not hiding, but sleeping and waiting for the Universe to get better?
Looking to answer the question of “where are all the aliens,” some scientists have suggested that planets like Earth might actually be very rare.
In 1996, economist/futurist Robin Hanson proposed a possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: there’s a “Great Filter” that prevents intelligent life from becoming advanced.
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that the reason we’ve found no evidence of alien civilizations is because there are none out there. It’s become a legend of the space age. The brilliant …
Continue reading “Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture”
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the lunchtime conversation that started it all! It’s become a kind of legend, like Newton and the apple or George Washington and the cherry tree. One day in 1950, …
In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have a brief window within which to communicate.