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I doubt the Great Filter manifests the same way in every case. We are going to be stuck here for a long time because of climate change, but the quantity of sto
by thanatos519 5y ago
I doubt the Great Filter manifests the same way in every case.
We are going to be stuck here for a long time because of climate change, but the quantity of stored carbon from early plants here is probably not common. Other earthlike civilizations might have to switch to solar/wind/wave electrical generation sooner, or they could just listen to their scientists and drown their plutocrats.
We could also nuke ourselves.
Kessler syndrome is hardly our biggest problem.
Life always finds a way ... to take itself out.
- heavenlyblue 5y ago> from early plants here is probably not common Why not? Seems like this is exactly what would regularly happen to plant-like life.
- orwin 5y ago> might have to switch to solar/wind/wave You mean our main power generation tools until the 1900s?
- Filligree 5y agoAnd it wasn't enough power. Economic development is largely built on increasing accessible power. We have alternatives to coal and oil now, but back in the 1900s we didn't. Those are both made from dead trees, which for millions of years simply didn't rot; this simultaneously cooled the planet down, dramatically weakening hurricane patterns for all time until... now, while also storing millions of years' worth of solar power for our use. A lot of otherwise habitable planets very likely didn't go through that phase.
- guerrilla 5y agoNo, solar wasn't one and the other's have radically increased in efficiency and decreased in price.