What Are Aliens Avoiding Our Planet?

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Are the Aliens Avoiding Our Planet?

In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked a crucial question during one lunch at the National Laboratory of Los Angeles. According to the number of galaxies, planets and starts that we know, it is very probable that extraterrestrial life exists. So, where is it? This question, known as the Fermi’s paradox, is very logical when the size of our universe is taken into consideration. Even though there are many hypothesis trying to find the answer of this question, one of the best and most provocative is the Zoo hypothesis. This hypothesis was invented in 1973 by John Ball, an astronomer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He claims that there may be intelligent aliens that are simply ignoring

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