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Re:The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys pa... by xwdv on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:46PM (#30725966)
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.
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Re:The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys pa... by 323 on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:51PM (#30726029)
Technically vacuum metastability would not be a great filter, since it will wipe out the whole universe, not just one civilization.
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Re:The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys pa... by pellmellism on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:03PM (#30726179)
unless there is more then 1 universe
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Re:The Future is Vast: Long-term perspective on humanitys pa... by nkoren on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:45PM (#30726621)
Still not the Great Filter, which by definition is the explanation for why there's so little evidence of intelligent life in this universe.
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