The Fermi Paradox – reblogged from Wait But Why

Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this:

Stars-fixed

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour.” But everyone feels something.

Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too—”Where is everybody?”

Read on more on Wait But Why here

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