Where Is Everybody?

Why the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation don’t actually help us to know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin

Allan Milne Lees

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Back in the summer of 1950 four physicists were walking to lunch; among their number was Enrico Fermi who was famous for creating the world’s first nuclear pile — the precursor to the atomic energy plants that would be built…

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Allan Milne Lees

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