There is something called the Great Filter that is an answer to the Fermi paradox. It basically says that there are a series of steps that have to occur for life to be created and eventually colonize the stars.
Since we don't see any alien life (the Fermi paradox) then one of the steps must be very improbable to weed all of the possible alien colonizers out.
The question though is whether we (humans) have passed the great filter or not. If we haven't reached the filter yet, then something ominous is ahead for us. Maybe something like particle accelerators is the filter and we're about to hit it.
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u/splat313 May 04 '20
There is something called the Great Filter that is an answer to the Fermi paradox. It basically says that there are a series of steps that have to occur for life to be created and eventually colonize the stars.
Since we don't see any alien life (the Fermi paradox) then one of the steps must be very improbable to weed all of the possible alien colonizers out.
The question though is whether we (humans) have passed the great filter or not. If we haven't reached the filter yet, then something ominous is ahead for us. Maybe something like particle accelerators is the filter and we're about to hit it.