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Why have we not found aliens yet?

We know the universe is almost impossibly huge. There are billions of planets — and we live on just one. Surely we cannot be the only life? In this video from Big Think, physicist Brian Cox explains some of the most popular theories to explain the absence of extraterrestrial contact.

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