[ExI] endpoint of evolution

[Christopher Luebcke]

Neil deGrasse Tyson was on John Stewart last night and made much a similarly sobering observation (towards the end of the clip).

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-1-2010/neil-degrasse-tyson



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From: Jeff Davis <heavensblade23 at gmail.com>
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>I'm ambivalent about the Great Filter myself, but I do think the Fermi Paradox probably tells us that the speed of light is indeed an unbreakable boundary (or that we are living inside a simulation, or that we are quarantined, or...).
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One possibility I've been thinking about lately is that working out the details of how two sentient species should make first contact is very difficult.  Even an exchange of scientific knowledge could be disastrous under the right circumstances.  Maybe for that reason it's best to stay in your own neck of the woods.
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."
- William S. Burroughs 
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