What Does the Fermi Paradox Say

question 4

Multiple Choice

What does the Fermi Paradox say?

• A) Given all the time since the Big Bang and all the stars, why has some form of intelligent life in the Galaxy not established a network throughout the Galaxy and visited us?
• B) Given the size of the Galaxy, there should be an exact duplicate of the Earth somewhere and we should have found it
• C) If life on Earth took a miracle to form, then there should be no life anywhere else
• D) If all the planets in our solar system besides Earth are lifeless, then it must follow that most of the planets around other stars are also lifeless and finding life is hopeless
• E) When Fermi got ill, he always needed two doctors to diagnose him

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