........ That silence is maddening. Not just because it compounds our feeling of cosmic isolation, but because it makes no sense. As we inevitably find more and more exo-planets where intelligent life can exist, why have we found no evidence ‹ no signals, no radio waves ‹ that intelligent life does exist?
It¹s called the Fermi Paradox, after the great physicist who once asked, ³Where is everybody?² Or as was once elaborated: ³All our logic, all our anti- isocentrism, assures us that we are not unique ‹ that they must be there. And yet we do not see them.²