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12 strange reasons humans haven't found alien life yet

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Scientists have proposed 12 unusual answers to the Fermi paradox.

Maybe we haven't found aliens because our universe isn't particularly conducive to life.

Maybe Earth is an anomaly — a lucky blue dot adrift in a vast ocean of darkness and dead worlds. Maybe we'd have better luck looking for life in the next universe over.

" Super-Earth " is a planet with a mass up to 10 times greater than Earth 's.

It could make rocket launches and space travel impossible on super-Earths.

Futurist Seth Shostak says we should be looking for machines, not little green men.

We've already found aliens (but are too distracted to realize it).

The odds are pretty high that if aliens do exist, they'll destroy themselves before we ever meet them.

In three out of four scenarios, the society crumbled and most of the population died.

A study found that an exponentially growing alien species using 100% renewable energy would still heat up their planet with waste heat.

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