By Rajni Pandey | December 5, 2024
60 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” Today, we still wonder why we haven’t found alien life despite billions of habitable planets.
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The universe is vast and ever-expanding, making it nearly impossible for alien civilizations to travel far enough to reach us or vice versa.
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Alien life may thrive in hidden oceans beneath frozen planets, too deep to detect and unaware of the sky above them.
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Aliens on massive planets might struggle to overcome gravity, making space exploration nearly impossible for them to reach us.
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Advanced aliens may have evolved into AI-driven societies, thriving in energy-rich places like galaxy centers, not on Earth-like planets.
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Our imagination may limit us. If aliens look vastly different, like cosmic “gorilla suits,” we might simply fail to notice them.
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Advanced civilizations may destroy themselves before contacting others, mirroring the resource crises we see on Earth.
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Even eco-friendly aliens might succumb to climate change caused by waste heat from their energy usage, cutting their cosmic journey short.
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The panspermia hypothesis suggests life on Earth, including humans, might have been “seeded” by bacteria from distant planets. Maybe we’re the aliens.
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