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Everyone feels something when they look up at the sky on a starry night. Whether you are overwhelmed by the beauty of the stars, fear the scale of the universe or have a existential meltdown. Everyone feels something. Enrico Fermi had a feeling too. “Where is everybody?” The Fermi paradox, named after Enrico Fermi, is the conflict between the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life and high probability of their existence. To put it simply, where are all the aliens? The basic idea of the paradox are: There exist billions of stars in the Milky Way and many of which are similar to the Sun. Surrounding these stars are many Earth-like planets that are much older than Earth. There is a high probability, some of these planets with Earth-like environments

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