[D66] Fermi paradox
René Oudeweg
roudeweg at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 09:38:52 CEST 2023
$ describe "Fermi paradox" en --exact
en:
Fermi paradox
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."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).There have been many
attempts to resolve the Fermi paradox, such as suggesting that
intelligent extraterrestrial beings are extremely rare, that the
lifetime of such civilizations is short, or that they exist but (for
various reasons) humans see no evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
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