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Space
Science
Leonard David

Where are all the aliens? Maybe they just don't want to talk to us

The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in Northern California searches for radio signals that could have been generated by intelligent alien life.

Back in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake put chalk to board and devised a formula to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in the Milky Way. Just how many alien societies exist and are detectable?

And there's also the paradoxical query asked a decade earlier by physicist Enrico Fermi. It seems like ET should be out there, given the vast amount of cosmic real estate. So, where is everybody?

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