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All by ourselves? The Great Filter and our attempts to find life.

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Enrico Fermi was visiting his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 1950 .

He was the first person to wonder about the nature of other intelligent civilizations.

The paradox arises from a seemingly innocent line of rational thinking that leads to an incorrect conclusion.

We live on a rocky planet around a ho-hum star in an unspectacular arm of an average spiral galaxy.

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