If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

Korhonen (2013) analyses the risk of ETC s initiating an attack by drawing inferences from the Cold War and mutually assured destruction scenarios. My favorite fictional description of a species whose defining trait is extreme caution — taken to the point of cowardice—is that of “Puppeteers”. They occur in Larry Niven’s “Known Space” stories, including the award-winning Ringworld (Niven

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