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Fermi Paradox Formulated

Enrico Fermi's famous question—'Where is everybody?'—framed the apparent contradiction between cosmic abundance and absence of detected alien civilizations.

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The Fermi paradox is the apparent inconsistency between the lack of conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the apparently high likelihood of their existence.

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