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Where are all the aliens hiding?

Diving Deeper into the Search for Extraterrestrial Life


A cartoon alien peeking over a planet in the solar system.
We’re looking, but where are they? (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

To be honest, we’re tired of waiting. Where are they? Where on Earth are all the aliens?


Well, not on Earth, or anywhere near, that’s very much the point.

At a conservative estimate, there are 200 billion galaxies in the universe. Let’s say there are 100 billion stars in each. Even if only 1% of those stars had a single planet orbiting around them, that’s still 200 quintillion possible new Earths.

Then let’s assume a planet has a one in a trillion chance of having the magic combination of water, temperature, and chemicals for that magic spark to happen.

That still means there should be life on a few hundred thousand planets.

Surely one of those should have said hello by now?

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Life on an alien moon, illustration
Who knows what form alien life could take? (Picture: Getty/Science Photo Libra)

Of course, not all of those will be home to intelligent life. We don’t know what they’ll be home to. Microbes. Crustaceans. Alien birds that fly using their ears, Dumbo-style. Jellyfish that look like VHS tapes. Space dinosaurs.

But among all those planets, around all those stars, in all those galaxies, there absolutely has to be some other form of intelligent life.

We simply can’t be alone.




The Drake equation

The outrageously basic maths above is a very simplified version of the Drake equation – the second-most famous formula in science after E=MC2.

Proposed by radio astronomer Frank Drake in 1961, it calculates the likelihood of intelligent, communicating civilisations based on a range of factors, including the number of planets, chances of life arising, and how likely that life is to be advanced.

It looks like this:

N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L

So you can see why we did our own.

It isn’t a new conundrum. In fact, it has long had a name – the Fermi paradox.

Apparently, in 1950, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were enjoying a lively discussion about flying saucers over lunch when he blurted out ‘Where is everybody?’.

Well, we feel the same, and decided to ask a few experts why we haven’t found anyone – or been found – yet.


Alien plants on an exoplanet, illustration
Alien life and intelligent alien life are two very different things (Picture: Getty/Science Photo Libra)

The Great Filter theory

There are, sadly, many reasons why we may not have yet discovered alien life out there.

One of these, the Great Filter theory, proposes that there are simply…

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