It's not even clear we'll be around to argue about this in another 1,000 years, let alone another 100,000. It seems like our ability to destroy things is outstr

It's not even clear we'll be around to argue about this in another 1,000 years, let alone another 100,000. It seems like our ability to destroy things is outstripping our ability to fix them. Part of the Fermi paradox they skipped in this article is the idea of a Great Filter which prevents life from evolving or creating a space faring culture. The assumption is that we're past the filtering event, but it's entirely possible that we haven't reached it and in some unknown future our race will cease to exist. Imagine a technology which would allow a single insane being to destroy the entire planet, or at least all intelligent life. We're not too far off from that point now if you consider modern political power. If that point of technological advancement is inevitably discovered prior to the technology required to become a space-faring race. The idea of an individual or small team of scientists creating a world-threatening virus or triggering nuclear war is not that far outside our current state of affairs. Interstellar space travel is likely at least 100 years in the future.