improbable.com - 2/2/2009
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For science fiction writers who want to get things right — to know and observe the actual constraints imposed by the universe, rather than just make things up — there's possibly big possible news. The physics ArXiv blog reports:
We have little to guide us on the question of the existence ...
darkroastedblend.com - 2/10/2009
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Fermi Paradox solved?
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Enrico Fermi asked a question that has troubled those searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations ever since: if the universe is teeming with advanced civilizations (as some solutions to the famous Drake equation would indicate), were are they? (From the physics arXiv blog via Improbable Research.)
Reginald Smith of the self-established Bouchet-Franklin Institute in Rochester, New York state, says in this paper, submitted to the International ...
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