What can extraterrestrial visitors teach us about kindness on Earth?

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By Eve AndrewsSep 30, 2017, 8:10 am270 pts
In 1950, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his lunch companions: Why haven’t we encountered intelligent life in our universe when there’s a high probability that it exists? In an attempt to answer what became known as Fermi’s Paradox, experimental philosopher and conceptual artist…

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