• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The Great Filter makes the most sense to me. The traits that make a species likely to be space faring are the same ones like to cause it to filter themselves out of the future.

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      7 months ago

      This is one of my favorite conundrums about life you touched on above with another comment and this one. Does an advanced society really exist fully “in sync” with their environment? Probably no space program if so, technological progression is slowed to thousands or millions of years (think of only harvesting resources deposited by natural water flows etc). Or do successful lifeforms use up their planets (then solar systems) resources with enough time to get out of dodge?

      Every planet and star system will kill their inhabitants sooner or later. Any culture that is gravity bound will surely perish without advances. The “Fermi Paradox” has always been more about threading a needle than a true/false statement for me.

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        7 months ago

        The “Fermi Paradox” has always been more about threading a needle than a true/false statement for me.

        totally