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The Cosmically Mundane Reason We Might Never Meet Aliens

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...
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Dark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?

What if aliens are deliberately keeping quiet for fear that they might be destroyed? In 1974 we sent the Arecibo radio message towards Messier 13. The message was mostly symbolic; we weren’t really ...
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3 Body Problem: Is the Universe Really a ‘Dark Forest’ Full of Hostile Aliens in Hiding?

We have no good reason to believe that aliens have ever contacted Earth. Sure, there are conspiracy theories, and some rather strange reports about harm to cattle, but nothing credible. Physicist ...
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The Unsettling Explanation Of The Dark Forest Hypothesis: Why Aliens Haven't Made Contact

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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Where are all the aliens?: Fermi’s Paradox explained

"Where is everybody?": This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi's paradox - Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO "Where is everybody ...
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The 7 Least Plausible Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

One of the greatest conundrums to face humanity is why we have yet to make first contact with extraterrestrial life. Some explanations are better than others. Over at io9, George Dvorsky tells us ...