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Nature 434, 1067 (28 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/4341067c; Published online 27 April 2005
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Nice planet, shame about the human race
Randall D. Kamien1 & Madhuri Kaul1
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 209 South 33rd Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Inspired by Stephen Baxter's Futures story "Under martian ice" (Nature 433, 668; 2005), we began to discuss the Fermi paradox: that if aliens exist, they would have visited everywhere by now, including Earth. Careful consideration led us to conclude that if they were intelligent, they would not visit this planet.
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