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What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Season 8 Episode 15 | 14m 48s
| Video has closed captioning.
Our solar system is a tiny bubble of habitability suspended in a vast universe that mostly wants to kill us. In fact, a good fraction of our own galaxy turns out to be utterly uninhabitable, even for sun—like stellar systems. Is this why .. most of us .. haven’t seen aliens?
