Maybe We Haven’t Seen Any Aliens Because They’re All Dead
by Joelle Dahm
May 12, 2017
4 minutes
The aliens may have found their grave. As we sweep the radio frequencies, we hear only noise; as we slew our telescopes, we see barren pixel after pixel. Is that because our fellow inhabitants of the galaxy have done themselves in, reducing their home planets to cinders? Is the night sky a charnel house hidden under a veil of tranquility?
Last year Jack O’Malley-James, an astrobiologist at Cornell University, and his colleagues Adam Stevens and Duncan Forgan published their of this macabre possibility. Just as astrobiologists have
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