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The great filter could presently already be on it’s way to us. Perhaps in the form of a gamma ray blast crawling across vast swathes of space. Or a vacuum metas
by xwdv 5y ago
The great filter could presently already be on it’s way to us. Perhaps in the form of a gamma ray blast crawling across vast swathes of space. Or a vacuum metastability event rapidly expanding and destroying reality from some point in the unobservable universe.
- 323 5y agoTechnically vacuum metastability would not be a great filter, since it will wipe out the whole universe, not just one civilization.
- pellmellism 5y agounless there is more then 1 universe
- nkoren 5y agoStill not the Great Filter, which by definition is the explanation for why there's so little evidence of intelligent life in this universe.