Guest host Wayt Gibbs talks with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds about what’s known as the Fermi Paradox: in a universe of trillions of planets, where is everybody?
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