- Fermi paradox (Wikipedia)
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. Those affirming the paradox generally conclude that if the conditions required for abiogenesis are as permissive as the available evidence on Earth indicates, then extraterrestrial life would be sufficiently common such that it would be implausible for it not to have been detected yet.
- Twoflower (Wikipedia)
Twoflower is a native of the Agatean Empire, on the Counterweight Continent, living in the major sea port of Bes Pelargic where he works as an “inn-sewer-ants” clerk where he calculates the level of insurance premiums. The first tourist ever on the Discworld, he wrote “What I did on my Holidays” after his return to the Empire.