Can we mask the Earth from hostile aliens ?

Scientists have a wild idea for hiding us from evil aliens

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Do we really want to hide, though? (G. Hüdepohl/ESO)

Most of the time when we talk about silly scientific papers related to alien life, we're talking about crazy ideas for how to find aliens. But a new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes a way of hiding from aliens. Humans are so fickle.