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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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Why The Multiverse Could Be Real
17:14
Can something that exists be bad science?
Why Is All DNA Right Handed?
18:56
It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
Are The Fundamental Constants Finely Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
17:21
Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?
18:19
What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
Is Our Model of Dark Energy Wrong? | New 4.2σ Results
19:03
The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
Is There A Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox?
18:50
Does this also explain why there are no aliens?
Quantum Energy Teleportation is Real!
16:58
Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?
Why Didn’t Antimatter Destroy The Universe?
14:50
Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
New Evidence: Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)
16:30
There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
How Astrophysics Can Literally Save the World
17:23
How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
Your DNA's Codes Are (Probably) From Outer Space
15:58
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?
Will The Big Bang Happen Again (and Again)?
16:35
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?
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