• Tilgare@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is why we’ve never seen or heard aliens out in the universe. Every civilization burns itself out faster than they can solve long distance space travel. Maybe the Great Filter is just the inherent nature of sentient beings. It would make me feel better to know that every other civilization to ever exist in the universe also destroyed itself in this manner, but maybe we are a special level of stupid.

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      6 months ago

      TIL about the Great Filter. Thanks for the rabbit hole!