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Crazy/Genius

Why Haven’t We Found Aliens?

Crazy/Genius

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Business, Society & Culture, Technology

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“Where is everybody?” That’s the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked in 1950. Nearly 70 years later, we’re getting tantalizingly close to solving the riddle known as Fermi’s Paradox: If the universe is so large and so old, why haven't we found life on other planets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast, sometimes it's better when you get weird, especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink, introducing new Dr Pepper Zero

0:12.6

with the same blend of 23 unique flavors,

0:15.4

it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper,

0:18.9

but with zero sugar and zero calories.

0:21.7

It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on.

0:24.1

Weird. But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. The year is 1950, middle of nowhere New Mexico. A group of scientists are walking to get something to eat at Los Alamos,

0:46.6

the lab responsible for the atomic bomb. These are some of the smartest physicists on the planet.

0:53.0

But they're not talking physics.

0:55.0

They're not even really talking about our planet.

0:57.5

They're talking about something that's been in the news a lot

1:00.5

after the end of World War II.

1:03.0

UFOs.

1:05.0

I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers.

1:10.0

We have received and analyzed between one in two thousand reports.

1:14.0

A certain percentage of this volume of reports

1:18.0

have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things.

1:25.4

One scientist jokes about a recent cartoon in the New Yorker.

1:28.8

It shows little alien men dragging garbage cans back to their flying saucers. It makes them laugh.

1:35.4

Apparently these UFO sightings are happening around the same time that

1:39.0

New York City trash bins are going missing. So anyway the group sits down to lunch. The conversation moves on to

1:46.2

formulas and complicated math. And the most famous guy at the table is a scientist named

1:52.4

Enrico Feri and out of nowhere he exclaims but where is

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