Nobody knows for certain what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi did or didn't say at the lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that took place in 1950.But as the perhaps apocryphal story has it, Fermi was holding forth on the sheer number of stars in the sky and the sheer number of intelligent civilizations the planets orbiting them might harbor, and puzzling out why we've never seen or heard any sign of them.
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