BY: DANIEL KORN “Where are they?” This is the question that physicist Enrico Fermi asked his colleagues at lunch one day in 1950, after a jovial discussion about the prevalence of aliens in popular culture at the time. We’ve discussed…
The Drake Equation calculates the inevitable probability of extraterrestrial life
BY: TED BARNABY Accelerating space technology and our present understanding of the universe make it increasingly difficult for people to deny the existence of extraterrestrial life. Whether alien contact has actually been made is a completely different can of worms…