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odd that we seem to have the cosmos to ourselves when popular opinion says the stars should be teeming with other civilizations. Join us for the latest installment in our ongoing series as we examine three possible reasons why little green men aren't knocking on our door.
Where
Have All the Spacemen Gone? Speculations on the Fermi Paradox (Part 3)
There are countless ideas out there to explain why we find no sign
of alien civilizations when we search the stars. Some are compelling, others
are not. Is the Earth really a zoo? Is there some kind of galactic Prime Directive
protecting us from outside influence? In this installment of our ongoing series,
we take a look at three more possibilities that all fit under our second solution
to the Fermi Paradox.
Where
Have All the Spacemen Gone? Speculations on the Fermi Paradox (Part 4)
Could warfare and biological weapons spell the end of a civilization’s
race for the stars? Join us for the final installment in our look at the Fermi
Paradox as we examine the third solution and look for further explanations for
the absence of signs of extraterrestrial life.
Why
I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (Discussion Article)
One of the most fascinating ideas in modern physics is the Many Worlds theory—the
idea that there may be an infinite number of parallel universes that differ
only slightly from our own. One of the least fascinating locales in the world
may be the roadside diner. What happens when the two collide? Find out in Lawrence
Watt-Evans’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short story.
Zeus's
Little Secret, Or Galileo and Clarke's Europan Vacation
At first glance, it seems obvious that Earth is the only locale in our solar
system that harbors life. But is this really true? In the film version of 2001:
A Space Odyssey there was something afoot on the moons of Jupiter. Thanks
to images from the Galileo spacecraft, it now appears that this might be true.
The moon Europa may just be home to a vast ocean of liquid water. Was Clarke
right all along?
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