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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Galactic Capital War Zones

A lot of the best sci-fi is about what if scenarios in weird environments, or how humanity adapt to them. We are essentially speculating off what we know about Earth's life and our assumption that intelligent life evolves rarely. If such close encounters were occurring every hundred thousand years, then your surface life would undergo mass extinction by incineration regularly. With science and technology on our side, many a bear on radioactive wasteland might become a paradise.

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