E.T. Stay Home: How Smartphones Might Explain the Fermi Paradox

Mookie fires the solo rants back up on Bald and Bloviating with a theory that starts small and ends up genuinely cosmic: what if the smartphone in your pocket is quietly answering one of physics' most famous unsolved questions? He opens with a real, striking data point: researchers exploited a quirk in AT&T's original exclusive iPhone contract, where regional network coverage varied and rolled out unevenly across the country, to isolate smartphone adoption's actual effect on birth rates. ...