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First Contact-"But Where is Everybody?"

First Contact-"But Where is Everybody?"

Looking up, Summer of 1950--Enrico Fermi, Physicist

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Feb 12, 2023
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Dear G-d:

Told ya. It’s time to start practicing the thing Leonard Nimoy taught us all:

πŸ–– πŸ–– πŸ–– πŸ–– πŸ––

According to this line of reasoning, by now, the Earth should have already been visited by an extraterrestrial civilization, or at least their probes.

Although he was not the first to consider this question, Fermi's name is associated with the …

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