Intelligent life faces threats of all kinds—even itself.
found signs of other intelligent life by now, right?
Now a team based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is revisiting an old theory to explain. The “Great Filter” theory posits that other civilizations, potentially many, have existed during the history of the universe, but they all wiped themselves out before they got a chance to make contact with us.
Even more chillingly, we’re on track to “filter” ourselves out of existence as well, so to speak.
To understand the Great Filter, Jiang and his coauthors turned a mirror on humanity. Whatever seems likeliest to killpose an existential threat to intelligent life on other planets, they proposed. They drew up a short list of the biggest threats to the human species, all but one of which are entirely our own fault.
Sure, an asteroid might hit Earth with enough force to kill pretty much everything on the planet. That’s not necessarily something we can prevent. But the other civilization-killers the JPL team think are likely are also
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