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The Fermi Paradox

费米悖论

Tim Urban

Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this:
在合适的地点看见满天繁星，每个人都会有不同的感受：

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour.” But everyone feels something.
仰望星空，有的人感觉被这史诗般的美丽震撼，有的人被无限的宇宙带走了思绪，我更容易在下半个小时想到超自然的灾难。每个人都会联想出一些奇妙的东西。

Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too—”Where is everybody?”
物理学家恩里科费米看着看着突然想问：“我们在哪？”

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A really starry sky seems vast—but all we’re looking at is our very local neighborhood. On the very best nights, we can see up to about 2,500 stars (roughly one hundred-millionth of the stars in our galaxy), and almost all of them are less than 1,000 light years away from us (or 1% of the diameter of the Milky Way). So what we’re really looking at is this:

无云星空看起来很大，其实它只是我们的邻居。运气好的话，我们可以看见最多2500颗星（大约占银河系百万分之一），几乎所有的星星距离我们不到1000光年（银河系直径的百分之一）。所以我们真正在看的是：

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