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> That would be bad news. I don't think so. We already know there is a filter for our race. The sun is one terminus, sometime after the earth is uninhabitable
by Supermancho 3y ago
> That would be bad news.
I don't think so. We already know there is a filter for our race. The sun is one terminus, sometime after the earth is uninhabitable to human life (due to ecology). So there's nothing to lose but some time.
- DrFalkyn 3y agoWe know one filter. But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we don't know about the filters we don't know about. Something akin to a gamma ray burst (not that exactly, since we do know about it but something like it) So the Great Filter theory is one way to reason about the filters we DON'T know about
- Supermancho 3y agoThere's a couple of filters we know, I think. Habitability/survival, physics for travel existing, locality to others.