The Great Filter: Humanity's Final Exam

The Great Filter: Humanity's Final Exam - Fermi Paradox Explained

The Great Filter is a coin-flip. Is it ahead us, or behind us? There's plenty of things that the Great Filter could be, let's look into them.

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How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie:

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Kurzgesagt : The Kardashev scale
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[CA]

This inspires me and depresses me at the same time

[statickaiinaweirdworld]

There's a third option. If life is abundant in the universe, then ONE of them would be the first in their Galaxy to establish an interstellar civilization. And so, there is a possibility that we are perhaps, as arrogant as it sounds, First. We may become the very first Interstellar Civilization in our Galaxy. We could be, to other life in the universe, the aliens. In the future.

[HakunaMatata-osog]

Humanity: Is the great filter behind or ahead of us?

Universe: yes

[DiscipleOfHeavyMeta]

10:27 I strongly agree. What do you do when you search for something on the internet, but your search yields no results? You go with something less specific and broader. We should apply the same principle in the search for extraterrestrial life and extraterrestrial intelligence. Since from, our vantage point, it appears that life is uncommon, focusing on terrestrial planets with liquid water and a N2-O2 atmosphere in just the right concentrations is unlikely to yield any result. However, if we broaden the search to potential signs of life to other parameters, like gas giants, alternative solvents like ammonia, hydrocarbons, sulfuric acid, liquid nitrogen or even supercritical fluids like carbon dioxide, and alternative biochemistries like, silicon-based or even life based on metallic elements like iron, we are increasing our odds of finding something.

It is my opinion that if life exists elsewhere and we find it, it will most certainly going to be different to anything we have on Earth and the conditions that allowed life to form on their home planet are likely to be just as "fine-tuned" to them, if not more so than ours are, such as in the case of borane-based or sulfur-based life as those are far more reactive than carbon as far as we know.

[Rickrollmachine]

This channel always feels like I'm watching a movie

[AminiumMusics]

I love getting notifications from Aperture and Exurb1a so much. Keep up the great work man!

[beevbophus]

This was incredible. Sometimes it’s great to take a step back from our involvement in our lives to understand how incredibly improbable everything is. It makes you appreciate life again, and to cherish every moment we have to share on this planet together.

[freemsjiang]

Does anyone know where this guy gets his stock footage holy shit

[huarwe]

The probability of us being here is so low that we probably aren't.

[julespeeters]

Everyone: where are aliens?

Me: how are we stil alive?

[ciarasimone]

Shower thoughts: we call early risers "early birds" and late nighters "night owls" but owls are birds too

[secretgames]

If school has taught me anything, it's that humanity is going to flunk the test.

[Noctazar]

Humans: Where is everyone?
Reapers: *whistling awkwardly*

[blackhawksfan]

I've never understood why we think that because we "can't see or hear anybody" that there's no life close by. We can't even "see" the next closest exoplanets in any meaningful detail beyond what radio and infrared can tell us. If the galaxy was a beach, we couldn't even see to the next grain of sand. Our frame of reference is so tiny, it's extremely arrogant that we even think we know what to look for.

[shubh_]

People,
right now you all are passing through *THE GREAT FILTER*
Sincerely,
*2 0 2 0*

[mr.dinosuar]

Everybody asks, "where dem alien's"

But nobody is asking, "how Dem alien's"

[amcdo]

Aliens: "we come in peace"
Humans: " yeah ok what you wearing though?"

[deepsea]

I think the great filter is space itself. Even with the most generous values plugged into the Drake equation, our nearest neighbor could be hundreds or thousands of light years away. We don't know if faster than light travel is practically possible. So each potential civilization may be stuck within their solar systems, or maybe a nearby system or two.

[frshadwingRcoon]

I'll literally listen to this guy talk about sponsors for hours