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Perhaps some of you have heard of the Fermi Paradox? It essentially relies on a mathematical equation, that allows you to add in your own estimations of how common stable stars are, how likely life if to evolve, how likely it is for said life to become sentient, civilised, technological, etc., and then, by multiplying all these probabilities together, determining how common extraterrestrial life may be. By even the most generous estimates, life should be pretty rare.

So then why is it that ever since sufficiently strong radio receivers were developed at the turn of the last century, we have been discovering a new source of alien transmission every week? The Fermi Equation becomes the Fermi Paradox when its conclusions are so clearly disproved by what we observe, when our radios pick up over thirty separate sources of alien transmission within a few dozen lightyears of our home planet!

Which brings up the greatest puzzle of the 20th/21st century: why are there so many aliens?
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