A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The reason the Fermi paradox, (@be_excellent_to_each_other thanks for bringing it up,) is a paradox is because our mathematical estimates regarding extraterrestrial life says it is likely, yet we have not conclusively observed any.

    The reason people think the Fermi paradox is a paradox is because they assume insanely optimistic values for L in the Drake equation.