October
16
/ 2021
“ But where is Everybody?” asks the Fermi Paradox in the 1950’s regarding intelligent civilizations in the universe. In 1964, a 32-year-old Soviet/Russian astrophysicist named Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev, who was at the time the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of the Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, was perplexed by the lack of evidence in the cosmos for technologically advanced civilizations in the universe. According to simple mathematics, assuming we live on an average planet in an average part of an average galaxy, there should be thousands of similar species living on thousands of home planets that are within sight of our telescopes. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"90751","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"406","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Image of the night sky above Paranal, Chile on 21 July
