There was a very simple reason for this: their planet was cooling down internally and would become uninhabitable within 500 years.
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Uninhabitable
/ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Synonyms for "uninhabitable" (7 found)
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Adjective(2 words)
inhospitableunfit dwelling
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Adjective(3 words)
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6 entriesbarren landscapechemical contaminationfire hazardradioactive zonestructural instabilitytoxic atmosphere
Collocations
6 entriesuninhabitable climateuninhabitable landscapeuninhabitable planetuninhabitable regionuninhabitable terrainuninhabitable zone
Inflections
2 entriesmore uninhabitablemost uninhabitable
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2 entriesSample sentences
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This house is uninhabitable.
Source: tatoeba (3818985)
19,000 homes in Gaza were rendered uninhabitable by Israeli attacks.
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Large portions of the Algerian desert are uninhabitable.
Source: tatoeba (7860065)
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