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189 our self-confidence. It is difficult to uncover a contradiction between theory and experiment when we have neither well-established facts nor well- grounded theory.’ We do not know enough to definitively answer the questions that are the heart of the paradox. Our searches may someday resolve the issue. Just one detection of an extraterrestrial technology, and the paradox aM collapses. Is There a Paradox?