Skittles was, by all accounts, your average kitten. She liked to play with string, eat premium chow from time to time. But when a friend explained the Fermi paradox to her late Sunday night, something changed.
“She’s been thinking about it ever since,” says Michelle Baker, who outlined the famous theory for Skittles. The Fermi paradox concerns the odds that extra-terrestrial life will ever make contact with Earth. While the universe is unfathomably big (making it unlikely we will ever make contact with intelligent life), it also contains millions of habitable planets (making it likely that aliens exist and have possibly already found us).
Sources close to the situation report that Skittles spent all of Monday morning running numbers and scenarios in her mind. “She’s really having trouble deciding which side of the paradox to come down on. Also, she’s a little freaked out about the idea that aliens are probably already aware of Earth, and we’ll probably meet them in about 1,500 years.”
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