Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928 - 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist who fell to his death on this day in 1969 while being detained by Italian police. His death became the subject of the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo.
Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named "Ponte della Ghisolfa", and was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. He organized young anarchists in the "Gioventu Libertaria" (Libertarian Youth) in 1962 and helped found the "Sacco and Vanzetti anarchist association" in 1965.
A few days before Pinelli's death, Italian fascists from the "Ordine Nuovo" orchestrated a bombing campaign in Milan; one bomb in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and injured 88. The bombing was blamed on Italian anarchists, and Pinelli was detained along with many other leftists, including Pietro Valpreda, who was falsely convicted and served eighteen years in prison.
Just before midnight on December 15th, 1969, Pinelli fell to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes.
Calabresi was later gunned down at his home in 1972, for which left-wing journalist Adriano Sofri was convicted in 1997.
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I think the likelihood that life has only ever happened once in the universe is vanishingly low.
However, I also think the likelihood that aliens have crossed the vast expanse of space to come visit us is just about equally vanishingly low.
My favourite (and not completely crackpot) theory is that we're among the first generation of spacefaring intelligences - at least in our galaxy. The 13.7 billion year age of the universe is a long time in human terms but we're really just at the start of the universe's lifespan. Life as we know it needs a lot of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, and those two are basically all we got from the big bang with maybe some tiny traces of lithium.
The heavier stuff comes only with time: red giants throwing off their outer layers at the end of their lives, supernovae doing their thing, neutron stars colliding and scattering the really heavy elements into the galaxy, etc. Maybe the universe is only now at a stage where the heavier elements are available in large enough quantities for life to develop.
That is the most hopeful of the standard Fermi paradox answers.
Even if there is another spacefaring intelligence exactly on pace with us, there wouldn't be any radio signals to hear from them unless they're within 200 light years. SETI is necessarily looking for elders.