In 1950 nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi propounded the Fermi Paradox: given their high likelihood of existence, why haven’t we found any plausible evidence for aliens?

Livescience offers 12 strange reasons why not. They are side-splitting.

  • We’re looking in the wrong universe
  • Aliens don’t live on planets
  • The aliens are hiding in underground oceans
  • The aliens are imprisoned on “super-Earths”
  • Aliens are robots
  • We’ve already found aliens (but are too distracted to realize it)
  • Humans killed aliens
  • The aliens triggered climate change (and died)
  • Aliens used clean energy, but still triggered climate change (and died)
  • The aliens couldn’t evolve fast enough (and died)
  • Dark energy is splitting us apart
  • Twist ending: We ARE the aliens!