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Physicist Enrico Fermi had often wondered why we never found evidence of intelligent life out there in the vast universe.
Andrew Snyder-Beattie of Oxford University explains that this lack of evidence (despite all the attempts and theoretical possibilities) has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox.
It takes a great question to have a great answer, and one response to the Fermi Paradox has been appropriately called the Great Filter.
Snyder-Beattie points out that the Great Filter is the apparent “bottleneck for the emergence of alien civilisations from any one of the many billions of planets…”
Because no alien civilizations have thus far “emerged” (at least as far as most scientists are concerned), this could mean that intelligent life fails to survive long enough to be able to make contact with faraway worlds.
If this be the inevitable fate of alien civilizations, then what does that say about our own?
Resources
https://theconversation.com/habitable-exoplanets-are-bad-news-for-humanity-25838
Copyright April 25, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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