Fermi Paradox
# Reference
- Source: Miscellaneous Notes/Daily Notes/2023-02-07; “The Great Silence”
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# Notes
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life compared to the apparently high a priori likelihood of its existence. As a 2015 article put it, “If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now.”
The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet. Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space.