According to Dave Rosenberg, seen by many as a perma-bear, it will be really hard for a self-sustaining recovery to pick up.

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Astronomers are uncertain if this represents a genuine rarity of systems like our own, or a simple self-selection problem in which our current technology only has the sensitivity to pick up the weird systems.

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