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What if we passed The Great FWhat if we passed The Great Filter?

Can we be after the filter?

What if the biggest challenge for a civilization is developing a consciousness?

What if that final point is just evolving from a bacteria into a more complex life form?

What if not discovering fire or electricity means extinction?

What if no other civilization passed any of this? Could we be the first one? Could this be the reason why we can’t see any aliens? Are we alone in this universe?

Well, isn’t this a scary thought?

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Before or after The Great Filter

The Great Filter might be a solution to the Fermi Paradox.

A civilization might be situated in one of two positions. Before or after this Great Filter.

Being before the filter means that the civilization hasn’t yet overcame the final challenge, which could be anything. For humanity, i...

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What is Fermi Paradox?

In 1950, the physicist and Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi famously asked his colleagues: “Where are they?”

Given the vastness of the space and how our civilization had evolved, theoretically, there should be some other civlization in the universe that we could somehow see. We have pr...

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The Great Filter

Well, the answer of the above question might be yes!

The Great Filter is a terrifying concept. It states that civilizations must overcome certain challenges in order for them to survive. These challenges might vary based on where the life took form, however, every civilization gets to a poi...

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The Great Filter, a possible solution for Fermi Paradox

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Alex Ghiculescu

@alexghiculescu

engineering & @deepstash

Do you ever wonder if we are alone in the Universe? Do you ask yourself why we don’t see extraterrestrial beings? This might answer these questions.

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