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How Can We Detect Other Civilizations?

We can search for other civilizations by looking for signals or physical traces they produce, rather than by trying to visit them…

What Are the Favorable Conditions for the Emergence of Life?

The favorable conditions for life, as framed by fermisparadox.com, center on Earth-like planets in a star's habitable zone — the …

What Are the Possible Answers to the Fermi Paradox?

The possible answers to the Fermi Paradox fall into a few broad families: intelligent life is extremely rare or short-lived; civi…

What Is Fermi's Paradox and Why Is It Called a Paradox?

Fermi's Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability that extraterrestrial civilizations exist and the comp…

What Is the Fermi's Paradox Website?

fermisparadox.com is an informational site about the Fermi Paradox—the apparent contradiction between the high probability of ext…