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The Icarus Project - a followon to the 1970's Project Daedalus to design a practical interstellar spacecraft - now has its own blog.

The first blog posting discusses how Alan Bond's original design work was motivated by the Fermi Paradox. Having demonstrated via Daedalus that interstellar travel was feasible in principle, Bond then went on to address the likelihood for intelligent civilisations to arise in a 1982 paper 'On the improbability of intelligent extraterrestrials‘ in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. His own arguments related to the rate of development of genomic complexity gave a low result, of typically one civilisation per 50,000 galaxies, thereby providing a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.