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Humanity Will Need to Survive About 400,000 Years if We Want any Chance of Hearing From an Alien Civilization
If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven't we heard from…
When Will Humanity Become a Type I Civilization?
Can humanity become a Type I civilization without causing our own Great Filter?
If Aliens Are Out There, We’ll Meet Them in a Few Hundred Million Years
A new study indicates that aliens are probably out there, occupying half of the Universe, and we'll likely meet them…
Avoiding the Great Filter. How Long Until We’re Living Across the Solar System?
According to a new study, humanity could become an interplanetary species in this century, interstellar by the 23rd, and intragalactic…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?
In our latest installment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven't heard from aliens is because they've been…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” III: What is the Great Filter?
In 1996, economist/futurist Robin Hanson proposed a possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: there's a "Great Filter" that prevents intelligent…
Where Are The Aliens? How The ‘Great Filter’ Could Affect Tech Advances In Space
"One of the main things we’re focused on is the notion of existential risk, getting a sense of what the probability…