Where Was Fermi?
Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Publisher Founding: March 1, 2014
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Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal
Journal Founding: August 2, 2012
Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year
Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed
Access: Electronic/Digital & Open Access
Fees: None (Free)
Volume Numbering: 12
Issue Numbering: 1
Section: B
Theme Type: Idea
Theme Premise: “Outliers and Outsiders”
Theme Part: 29
Formal Sub-Theme: None
Individual Publication Date: October 1, 2023
Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2024
Author(s): Richard May
Author(s) Bio: Richard May (“May-Tzu”/“MayTzu”/“Mayzi”) is a Member of the Mega Society based on a qualifying score on the Mega Test (before 1995) prior to the compromise of the Mega Test and Co-Editor of Noesis: The Journal of the Mega Society. In self-description, May states: “Not even forgotten in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), I’m an Amish yuppie, born near the rarified regions of Laputa, then and often, above suburban Boston. I’ve done occasional consulting and frequent Sisyphean shlepping. Kafka and Munch have been my therapists and allies. Occasionally I’ve strived to descend from the mists to attain the mythic orientation known as having one’s feet upon the Earth. An ailurophile and a cerebrotonic ectomorph, I write for beings which do not, and never will, exist — writings for no one. I’ve been awarded an M.A. degree, mirabile dictu, in the humanities/philosophy, and U.S. patent for a board game of possible interest to extraterrestrials. I’m a member of the Mega Society, the Omega Society and formerly of Mensa. I’m the founder of the Exa Society, the transfinite Aleph-3 Society and of the renowned Laputans Manqué. I’m a biographee in Who’s Who in the Brane World. My interests include the realization of the idea of humans as incomplete beings with the capacity to complete their own evolution by effecting a change in their being and consciousness. In a moment of presence to myself in inner silence, when I see Richard May’s non-being, ‘I’ am. You can meet me if you go to an empty room.” Some other resources includeStains Upon the Silence: something for no one, McGinnis Genealogy of Crown Point, New York: Hiram Porter McGinnis, Swines List, Solipsist Soliloquies, Board Game, Lulu blog, Memoir of a Non-Irish Non-Jew, and May-Tzu’s posterous.
Word Count: 48
Image Credit: Richard May.
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2369–6885
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citations, after the publication.*
Keywords: Earth, Fermi paradox, May-Tzu, Richard May, stock market, Truth.
Where was Fermi?
When the Earth was flat, everyone knew it.
Truth was determined by the stock market
then as now.
There’s a vaccine
for those who don’t think
truth is a Conspiracy Theory.
“Where is everybody?”?
Where was Fermi?
Nothing will come of anything
that comes of anything.
May-Tzu
Notes:
1. Speaking at Australia’s Lowy Institute as part of a talk entitled “Preparing for Global Challenges: In Conversation with Bill Gates,” the Microsoft founder made the following admission:
“We also need to fix the three problems of [COVID-19] vaccines. The current vaccines are not infection-blocking. They’re not broad, so when new variants come up you lose protection, and they have very short duration, particularly in the people who matter, which are old people.”
2. “The Fermi Paradox is Neither Fermi’s Nor a Paradox
Robert H. Gray
Abstract
The so-called Fermi paradox claims that if technological life existed anywhere else, we would see evidence of its visits to Earth — and since we do not, such life does not exist, or some special explanation is needed. Enrico Fermi, however, never published anything on this topic. On the one occasion he is known to have mentioned it, he asked “where is everybody?” — apparently suggesting that we don’t see extraterrestrials on Earth because interstellar travel may not be feasible, but not suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial life does not exist, or suggesting its absence is paradoxical.
The claim “they are not here; therefore they do not exist” was first published by Michael Hart, claiming that interstellar travel and colonization of the galaxy would be inevitable if intelligent extraterrestrial life existed, and taking its absence here as proof that it does not exist anywhere. The Fermi paradox appears to originate in Hart’s argument, not Fermi’s question.
Clarifying the origin of these ideas is important, because the Fermi paradox is seen by some as an authoritative objection to searching for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence — cited in the U. S. Congress as a reason for killing NASA’s SETI program on one occasion — but evidence indicates that it misrepresents Fermi’s views, misappropriates his authority, deprives the actual authors of credit, and is not a valid paradox.
Keywords: Astrobiology, SETI, Fermi paradox, extraterrestrial life”
Click to access 1605.09187.pdf
3. Richard Dolan, historian:
https://richarddolanmembers.com/category/free-content/
Bibliography
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Footnotes
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Citations
American Medical Association (AMA 11th Edition): May R. Where was Fermi?. October 2023; 12(1). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi
American Psychological Association (APA 7th Edition): May, R. (2023, October 1). Where was Fermi?. In-Sight Publishing. 12(1).
Brazilian National Standards (ABNT): MAY, R. Where was Fermi?. In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, Fort Langley, v. 12, n. 1, 2023.
Chicago/Turabian, Author-Date (17th Edition): May, Richard. 2023. “Where was Fermi?.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 12, no. 1 (Winter). http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi.
Chicago/Turabian, Notes & Bibliography (17th Edition): May, R “Where was Fermi?.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 12, no. 1 (October 2023).http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi.
Harvard: May, R. (2023) ‘Where was Fermi?’, In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, 12(1). <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi>.
Harvard (Australian): May, R 2023, ‘Where was Fermi?’, In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, <http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi>.
Modern Language Association (MLA, 9th Edition): May, Richard. “Where was Fermi?.” In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vo.12, no. 1, 2023, http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi.
Vancouver/ICMJE: Richard M. Where was Fermi? [Internet]. 2023 Oct; 12(1). Available from: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/fermi.
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