The aliens are silent because they’re dead

Some of the best research in astronomy has had to do with the search for extra-terrestrial life.  It is some of the best because it has exhaustively searched using the most sophisticated and logical means of analysis.  Based upon meaningful signals from the electromagnetic spectrum, it was expected that radio waves carrying language, images or intelligible signals or possibly coherent light (like laser light) from non-natural sources would prove “we are not alone.”  But the silence, as it has been said, is deafening.   We are alone.


To respond to this absence of life in the universe, some scientists have decided to pose the extinction problem. “The universe is probably filled with habitable planets; so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens… Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive.  Most early planetary environments are unstable. To produce a habitable planet, life forms need to regulate greenhouse gases such as water and carbon dioxide to keep surface temperatures stable,” said Dr Aditya Chopra from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.[1]


Dr Chopra has a theory which suggests that life must survive long enough to stabilize the environmental conditions of its planet in order to continue to evolve, essentially into sentient beings.  This he says solves a puzzle for the fact that life exists nowhere else in the cosmos.



Thus he saves several pseudo sciences in one exhaustive hypothesis. Since there must be billions of livable worlds in the universe, based on the fact that we exist and since evolution only needs water to get started then the reason we do not see, hear, or detect in any other way the millions of alien worlds that should be out there is because they died; either before they got started or shortly thereafter as others have supposed.  So, not only is evolution saved but so is the idea that earth is not special.  Furthermore, if we could get to them, many habitable worlds are waiting for us to “stabilize the environment.”


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