Where Are All the Aliens? We Review the Search for E.T. » Explorersweb

Where Are All the Aliens? We Review the Search for E.T. » Explorersweb

In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was Enrico Fermi, a giant in the fields of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. But the men were relaxing over lunch, and the conversation was not erudite. Nuclear physicist Emil Konopinski brought up a cartoon he had recently seen in The New Yorker, …