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Why Haven't We Found Alien Life?

Season 2 Episode 7

With millions of Earth like planets around sun like stars in our galaxy alone, why don't we see intelligent alien life? Or any other life for that matter? It gets especially weird when you factor in new scientific revelations that life on Earth occurred crazy fast! So if you want to help us theorize on the real reasons we haven't found alien life, you should watch today's episode of Space Time!

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The Universe Has Been Expanding Since the Big Bang. Just Not How We Thought.
17:40
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
The Quantum Experiment That Breaks Time
16:28
Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
We Thought Black Holes Created Event Horizons. It Might Be the Opposite
17:39
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
We’ve Been Looking for Aliens for 70 Years. We've Been Doing It Wrong All Along
20:48
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang
14:27
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe
17:41
Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
Earth’s Core Should Be Impossible. A New State of Matter Explains It.
16:16
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.
Something Disturbing Happens When You Solve Einstein's Equations This Way
14:42
Gödel found a time-travel solution in General Relativity, revealing spacetime can loop on itself.
Martian Soil Is Deadly. And That's Why It Might Support Life
18:46
Tardigrades can survive almost anything—even most of Mars. But one Martian chemical stops even them.
Is the LHC Creating Dark Matter?
18:18
The Higgs boson may open a portal to hidden particles that could explain dark matter.
Dark Energy Is Driving the Universe Apart. We May Finally Know Why.
19:02
The universe expands faster. “Dark energy” may not be constant after all.
Our Only Chance To Finally Unlock The Gravity Particle
16:26
There’s a new generation of experiments that may unlock the gravity particle.
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