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Decoding The Unknown · September 11 · 45 min

Dark Forest Theory: Why Aliens Might Be Hiding From Us

With 60 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy alone, why haven't we found alien life? The Dark Forest Hypothesis offers a chilling answer: civilisations hide because revealing themselves means death. Game theorists and astrophysicists take this seriously, and our radio signals have already travelled 120 light years into space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With 60 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy alone, why haven't we found alien life? The Dark Forest Hypothesis offers a chilling answer: civilisations hide because revealing themselves means death. Game theorists and astrophysicists take this seriously, and our radio signals have already travelled 120 light years into space.

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