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  • More ideas on the Fermi Paradox

    June 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments

    Many recent blog posts continue to try to explain the Fermi Paradox.  I’ll try to explain why these writers just don’t get it. http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-fermi-paradox/ http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_9.html http://www.entangledstates.org/2009/06/where-are-they-another-solution-to-fermis-paradox.html http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23604/ http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1796-Alternative-solutions-to-the-Fermi-paradox.html http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408521v1 Many people still are confused on several points about the Fermi Paradox.  Let’s start with the name. The word paradox is used because everyone “knows” it’s [...]

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    Yet another answer to the Fermi Paradox

    February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

    Reginald Smith from the Bouchet-Franklin Institute in Rochester, New York has written a paper which claims that every civilization in the Milky Way stops broadcasting EM after 1000 years.  Based on this assumption he shows that it is reasonable that our galaxy has multiple sentient species who never interact with each other. This assumption seems [...]

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