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Where Are All The Aliens?

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 #18 Where Are All The Aliens?

Where is everyone? New research says that our

Milky Way Milky Way Galaxy may be home to 2 billion
Galaxy: a galaxy is planets that have the right conditions to support
a system of stars life. These planets are said to be in a habitable
and planets; the
zone, which means they have the correct
earth belongs to
the Milky Way temperature to maintain liquid water. While no
Galaxy which is one knows what alien life would look like, if it is
home to 300 anything like life on earth, it would need water to
billion stars survive. The possibility of liquid water depends
including our sun on the planet’s distance from the nearest star.
habitable: a place
Too close and water evaporates; too far away
that is suitable for and water freezes. Recently, scientists have also
life calculated the effects of clouds on planet
temperature, which has increased the estimate
evaporate: the of habitable planets to 2 billion. And of course,
process of this is only the number of habitable planets in
changing liquid to
the Milky Way Galaxy, which is just one of an
gas
estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the
estimate: to universe. Wow!
roughly calculate a
number The earth was formed 9 billion years after the
Big Bang. Many of the planets in the Milky Way
big bang: the
were formed millions and some even billions of
theory that the
universe was years before the earth. If intelligent life had
created through developed on any of these planets, they would
an explosion have had a big head start on humanity. With
that much time to develop the technology for
head start: an space travel, we should have been visited by
advantage from
aliens many times, right?
starting early

So where is everyone? Of course, some people

do believe that aliens have visited earth many
cover-up: the act times, and the governments of the world are
of hiding involved in a huge cover-up. Other people
information
believe that we have also been visited many
times in the ancient past.

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enormous: very They point to the Egyptian pyramids or the

large in size or enormous heads of Easter Island and say that
quantity there was no way that ancient humans were
capable of creating these structures without alien
assistance. Of course, these theories are not widely
accepted.

So what about you? Do you think aliens have

visited us or do you think we are all alone in the
universe? Either answer to this question is equally
mysterious and awesome in its own way.

Video: https://vimeo.com/73437656

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(CC BY 4.0)

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