Why is it called Area 51? The simple answer is that it was a map designation, but the exact reason why that number was chosen is not completely clear. The site at Groom Lake was near the Atomic Energy Commission’s Nevada Proving Ground, where nuclear testing was carried out. The land there was divided into […]
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What is the Great Filter? The Great Filter is one of the possible explanations for why we might not find other intelligent life in the universe. It is a point at which no intelligent life can pass. You may have heard of the Fermi Paradox. I wrote an article about it before. Enrico Fermi was
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What is the Fermi paradox? It is the fact that if life in the universe is so common, we should have found signs of it. Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist. He received a Nobel Prize for physics in 1938 and he was involved with the Manhattan Project in the Second World War. He died
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