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Is there anything revelatory in this article? I didn't see any links or references to new papers/ideas, but some Googling returned this 2016 PDF[1] titled 'The
by netinstructions 11y ago
Is there anything revelatory in this article? I didn't see any links or references to new papers/ideas, but some Googling returned this 2016 PDF[1] titled 'The Case for a Gaian Bottleneck' by Aditya Chopra from ANU.
There's been discussion in the past[2][3] about these 'Great Filters' that prevent life from occurring everywhere in the universe.
[1]http://adi.life/pubs/ChopraLineweaver2016.pdf http://adi.life/pubs/ChopraLineweaver2016.pdf
[2]http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
[3]http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
- ekianjo 11y agoSame impression here, nothing new in this article. Its part of numerous ideas discussed before. And there is no hard evidence to support if this is the main bottle neck or not.
- melipone 11y agoWhat I got was that the rapid emergence of biological feedback was essential for regularizing climate which in turn enabled life on earth to evolve. In a way, life itself enabled life on earth. It's the rarity of this emergence that is important rather than the rarity of intelligent life. Another thing I got is that life itself will destroy life the way climate change is going :-)