In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

The most distilled essence of the Great Filter argument is simple: Very few, if any, civilizations in the universe make it to the advanced spacefaring stage. That's it. Fermi's paradox is broken ...

With this conundrum, known as the Fermi Paradox, Fermi called attention to the fact that a universe teeming with intelligence would likely be obvious to us. To explain the absence of extraterrestrial ...

In a galaxy assumed to be filled with clever beings, why don’t we see any? This dissonance is known as the Fermi Paradox. A lot of folks have given this a lot of thought. The first thing they note is ...