SETI bioastro: Some of the original answers to Fermi's Question

From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 21:31:24 PST

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    >ENRICO FERMI: "WHERE IS EVERYBODY?"
    >
    >According to an often repeated anecdote, physicist Enrico Fermi
    >once wondered aloud about the existence of extraterrestrial
    >beings and why they had not shown up on Earth: "Where is
    >everybody?"
    >
    >In another Los Alamos report that was withdrawn from online
    >public access, Los Alamos scientist Eric M. Jones tracked down
    >the three colleagues with whom Fermi discussed the matter --
    >Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski -- and
    >obtained their written recollections of the 1950 conversation.
    >
    >See "'Where is Everybody?': An Account of Fermi's Question," Los
    >Alamos National Laboratory report number LA-10311-MS, March
    >1985 (17 pages, 1 MB PDF file):
    >
    > http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/la-10311-ms.pdf
    >

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