which considers the odds of a significant number of intelligent civilizations existing in the galaxy, and ponders the apparent contradiction of human civilization never having encountered any. A well-known attempt to ponder this paradox through the lens of a Fermi estimate is the Drake equation, which seeks to estimate the number of such civilizations present in the galaxy.

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Scientists often look for Fermi estimates of the answer to a problem before turning to more sophisticated

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