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Re:Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox”: The Percolation Theory Hypothesis by D-Coder on Friday December 25, 2020 @02:50PM (#25538571)
This assumes that every single intelligent species fails this way. We only need one that is smart enough or lucky enough to avoid this problem.

Similarly for other problems that can block interstellar travel (bureaucracy, nuking themselves, etc).

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Re:Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox”: The Percolation Theory Hypothesis by pfdietz on Friday December 25, 2020 @03:31PM (#25538817)
And not just here, but in all the other galaxies we can see. Surveys for K3 civilizations in other galaxies have come up empty.
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