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New study suggests alien civilizations meet their ends long before they have a chance to communicate

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Fermi Paradox is the tension between our suspicions of potential for life in the universe and the fact that we have only found one planet with an intelligent (ish) species inhabiting it.

A new study suggests that intelligent civilizations likely meet their end due to climate change on whatever planet they inhabit.

Detecting alien life may come from seeing the lasting damage a civilization did to their planet before they promptly destroyed themselves.