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#Fermi #Aliens #GreatFilter
Look up tonight. Two hundred billion stars burn in our galaxy alone. By simple math, life should be everywhere. Yet when we listen, we hear nothing. No signals. No lights blinking across the dark. Just silence, spreading in every direction we point our telescopes. Scientists call this the Fermi paradox, and for decades people treated the silence as a mystery to solve. Now a darker idea is taking hold. The silence itself might be an answer, and every year that passes makes it more frightening. We will trace the vanishing explanations, the near misses in our own history, and the chance that we are running out of time to learn why nobody else is talking. If that idea grips you, hit subscribe and stay with us. Look up one more time. The questions are about to get uncomfortable.
Sources:
NASA, Commemorating the Anniversary of the Drake Equation, nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/commemorating-the-anniversary-of-the-drake-equation
SETI Institute, The Drake Equation, seti.org/research/seti-101/drake-equation
Robin Hanson, The Great Filter, Are We Almost Past It?, https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
Grabby Aliens, A Simple Model by Robin Hanson, grabbyaliens.com
ScienceDaily, Explosions In Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction On Earth, sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050411101721.htm
Wikipedia, 1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
Nick Bostrom, The Simulation Argument, simulation-argument.com
#space #aliens #science #universe #astronomy #mystery #education #cosmos #existential #future
#Fermi #Aliens #GreatFilter
Look up tonight. Two hundred billion stars burn in our galaxy alone. By simple math, life should be everywhere. Yet when we listen, we hear nothing. No signals. No lights blinking across the dark. Just silence, spreading in every direction we point our telescopes. Scientists call this the Fermi paradox, and for decades people treated the silence as a mystery to solve. Now a darker idea is taking hold. The silence itself might be an answer, and every year that passes makes it more frightening. We will trace the vanishing explanations, the near misses in our own history, and the chance that we are running out of time to learn why nobody else is talking. If that idea grips you, hit subscribe and stay with us. Look up one more time. The questions are about to get uncomfortable.
Sources:
NASA, Commemorating the Anniversary of the Drake Equation, nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/commemorating-the-anniversary-of-the-drake-equation
SETI Institute, The Drake Equation, seti.org/research/seti-101/drake-equation
Robin Hanson, The Great Filter, Are We Almost Past It?, https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
Grabby Aliens, A Simple Model by Robin Hanson, grabbyaliens.com
ScienceDaily, Explosions In Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction On Earth, sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050411101721.htm
Wikipedia, 1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
Nick Bostrom, The Simulation Argument, simulation-argument.com
#space #aliens #science #universe #astronomy #mystery #education #cosmos #existential #future
