What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Fermi Paradox - Facts So Romantic
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The “signal leakage” of our communications is becoming more and more scarce, not more abundant.Illustration by Danielle Futselaar / FlickrReports of U.F.O. sightings were commonplace in the 1950s. The C.I.A. recently came clean, on Twitter, concerning its role: “Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ‘50s? It was us.” Though not entirely—some of the hoaxes of flying saucer sightings, like the McMinnville U.F.O. photographs, were wholly home-made. They wound up inspiring a New Yorker cartoon, depicting aliens making off with some small town’s municipal trashcans, that would go down in scientific lore: The cartoon—along with the thought that, given the universe’s old age, E.T. should be commonplace—came up in conversation between four theoretical and nuclear physicists, at the Los Alamos (...)