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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Uncannyness of the Fermi Problem

The idea that we're alone seems absolutely bizarre and in some ways terrifying. And the idea that the cosmos is teeming with advanced life that we just haven't detected yet is also absolutely astounding and in its own way terrifying. Only one of them seems, I mean, if you could tell me that either were true, only one of them would strike me as genuinely surprising.

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