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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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15:02
Is gravity just an emergent effect of entropy?
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14:28
Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary?
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14:12
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15:13
So what exactly is an EMP, and how dangerous are they?
What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
14:44
The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
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14:33
We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.
Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
16:30
Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?
Can The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
14:29
Could cosmic voids be driving the universe?
What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
17:53
Is there a black hole hiding in the core of the Sun eating it from the inside out?
What if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
19:19
What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?
Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
19:03
Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.
What If Gravity is Not Quantum?
18:32
The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?
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