https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasa-officially-ends-the-maven-mission-months-after-losing-contact-with-the-mars-orbiter
Key insight: <p>The agency last heard from the spacecraft on December 6
#officially #mission #contact #months
Source:
Carl Sagan & Schklovski: Intelligent Life in the Universe (1968), one of the sources for my podcast First Contact, which had a staggering 10 views in 2 days on Youtube, the other being Take Me to Your Leader by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2026).

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6. 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 Web, 2002 (Expanded Edition 2015)
A thrillingly comprehensive, highly readable deep-dive into the Fermi Paradox that provides 75 distinct, clever answers to why we haven't officially met extraterrestrials yet—ranging from the mundane to the utterly terrifying.