New Humanist: ‘They didn’t come from outer space’
May 1st, 2013
“So, where are they then?” That question, allegedly posed in 1950 by physicist Enrico Fermi, neatly captures the contradiction between the apparently high probability of extraterrestrial life and the complete lack of evidence for it. It’s a mystery that’s never far from the surface in Alien Revolution, the Royal Observatory’s new exhibition exploring our changing perception of alien life from the 16th century to the present day.
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