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Yesterday HN had a discussion about the Fermi Paradox¹. Personally, I think there is no single Great Filter, just a product of many modest filters — and one of
by kps 6y ago
Yesterday HN had a discussion about the Fermi Paradox¹. Personally, I think there is no single Great Filter, just a product of many modest filters — and one of them is that, if early life doesn't have an oxygen catastrophe², any eventual intelligent life will have a tough time not being able to burn things.
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810078
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Catastrophe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Catastrophe
- ajnin 6y agoWithout free oxygen, animal life could hardly develop at all, let alone intelligent life, since it would not have access to the large amounts of energy it needs to exist.