Yesterday, I was referred to this article on Fermi's Paradox, which hopes that no other life is found in the Solar System, by Tim O'Reilly. For the non-geek, Fermi's Paradox is a question asked by Enrico Fermi, the great physist, "if there are other intelligent lifeforms in the universe, why haven't we seen them ( Read more... )

The author John Scalzi asked for comments on The Fermi Paradox.

The Fermi Paradox was posed by Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. Discussing the possibility of intelligent life in the galaxy, he asked “where are they?” Fermi was no dummy. He knew that, for 99% of the history of humanity, the aliens would ( Read more... )