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The Fermi Paradox
Takes the question "where is everybody?" and works it all the way down: the numbers that make silence surprising, then a systematic tour of the explanations, sorted into "no one is out there" versus "they're out there and we can't tell". The Great Filter section is the part that stays with you, because it makes our own future the variable being solved for.
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