Well, I Laughed
Plenty of Fish pt.2: Alone in a Crowded Room
Do aliens exist? Or are we alone in the universe? In this week’s podcast episode we explore Fermi's Paradox. Maia covers topics like the “great filter theory”, the day a UFO sighting stopped a football game with Ardico Magnini, the “coso artifact”, and the US Congressional Hearing on UFO sightings and the testimony of Retired Maj. David Grusch. An episode that addresses the question, if there are supposed to be plenty fish in our galaxy… where are they?
Photos and Videos Referenced:
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| The Coso Artifact sliced in two - courtesy of Talk Origins | The Coso Artifact X-Ray - courtesy of Talk Origins |
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| La Nazione Newspaper reporting the UFO sighting - courtesy of bbc.com | Artist Rendition of the sighting - Domenica del Corriere "A wave of flying saucers over Italy" - courtesy of bbc.com |
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| Samples of 'Angel Hair' left by the Italy UFO - courtesy of Geological Society of London | Spider "ballooning" or "floating" - courtesy of Gardening & More via YouTube |
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The Witnesses of the UFO sighting in 1954 courtesy of bbc.com Ardico Magnini, Ronaldo Lomi, Gigi Boni, and Romolo Tuci |
The Drake Equation |
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| Carrying Capacity Graph (line indicated by K is the asymptote/carrying capacity) | Sublinear (Carrying Capacity), Linear, and Super-linear (Exponential) Growth |
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| Exponential Growth | Exponential Growth with "Innovation Resets" - courtesy of M A Bettencourt et. al. via Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities |
Sources:
The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox - Astronomy.com
Fermi Paradox: Where are the aliens? - Space.com
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities - Luis M A Bettencourt et al - PubMed
Fermi's Paradox (i.e. Where are They?) - U Oregon
Manhattan Project Spotlight: Enrico Fermi - Atomic Heritage Foundation
The Coso Artifact: Mystery from the Depths of Time - Pierre Stromberg
When Some 1920s Garbage Was Mistaken for an Ancient Artifact - Smithsonian
Door 9: Football, geothermal energy and the 1954 wave of UFOs - Geological Society of London
The day UFOs stopped play - BBC News
4 Mysterious UFO sightings that are still unexplained - Science Focus
Herbert York - Princeton University
Manhattan Project - Indiana University
The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Atomic Archive
The Manhattan Project - Britannica
What we actually know about aliens, according to science - Washington Post
U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says - NPR