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I don't believe in The Great Filter, as I disagree with it's basic premise, i.e. the Fermi paradox. The Prime Directive is the most plausible explanation.
by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 5y ago
I don't believe in The Great Filter, as I disagree with it's basic premise, i.e. the Fermi paradox. The Prime Directive is the most plausible explanation.
- pfdietz 5y agoThat would require a uniformity of purpose over billions of years, not only in our galaxy but in galaxies at cosmological distances (where we could detect K3 civilizations).
- jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 5y agoIt would only require such uniformity for some millennia, that is how long civilization has existed. A hundred thousand years tops, if you're to believe traditional tales and mythology ;) We don't know if alien civilizations interfered a million years ago.
- pfdietz 5y agoIt would require a prohibition on colonizing planets on which intelligent life might arise in the future. This would have to be enforced over the 4.5 billion years Earth has existed.