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Have you tried to google the answer?
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I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it’s not a question about the English language.
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Have you tried to google the answer?
– raleigh
17 hours ago
3
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it’s not a question about the English language.
– Jim
16 hours ago
Have you tried to google the answer?
– raleigh
17 hours ago
Have you tried to google the answer?
– raleigh
17 hours ago
3
3
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it’s not a question about the English language.
– Jim
16 hours ago
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it’s not a question about the English language.
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The "Great Filter" in astronomy is a way of talking about the Fermi Paradox, that is, the paradox that although scientists have argued that the probability of extraterrestrial civilisations existing is high, no evidence has been found.
When working out how many planets might have intelligent life that we can detect, we can apply various "filters". Some examples of these: our technology for detecting them has only existed for around 100 years (radio etc). Some planets will be too small to have an atmosphere that supports life; some might have a poisonous atmosphere, be too hot, too cold, have too much radiation, etc. Some might simply not have existed long enough or be too far away. Even after applying these "filters", there ought, the scientists calculate, be a sufficiently large number of civilisations that we would have heard about some by now.
It is suggested that this failure implies that something is wrong with the scientific arguments. This observation is imagined to imply a further larger factor which we do not yet know, a "Great Filter" which reduces the large number of places where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of places where it actually has been found (one).
Great Filter
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The "Great Filter" in astronomy is a way of talking about the Fermi Paradox, that is, the paradox that although scientists have argued that the probability of extraterrestrial civilisations existing is high, no evidence has been found.
When working out how many planets might have intelligent life that we can detect, we can apply various "filters". Some examples of these: our technology for detecting them has only existed for around 100 years (radio etc). Some planets will be too small to have an atmosphere that supports life; some might have a poisonous atmosphere, be too hot, too cold, have too much radiation, etc. Some might simply not have existed long enough or be too far away. Even after applying these "filters", there ought, the scientists calculate, be a sufficiently large number of civilisations that we would have heard about some by now.
It is suggested that this failure implies that something is wrong with the scientific arguments. This observation is imagined to imply a further larger factor which we do not yet know, a "Great Filter" which reduces the large number of places where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of places where it actually has been found (one).
Great Filter
answered 17 hours ago
Michael Harvey
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The "Great Filter" in astronomy is a way of talking about the Fermi Paradox, that is, the paradox that although scientists have argued that the probability of extraterrestrial civilisations existing is high, no evidence has been found.
When working out how many planets might have intelligent life that we can detect, we can apply various "filters". Some examples of these: our technology for detecting them has only existed for around 100 years (radio etc). Some planets will be too small to have an atmosphere that supports life; some might have a poisonous atmosphere, be too hot, too cold, have too much radiation, etc. Some might simply not have existed long enough or be too far away. Even after applying these "filters", there ought, the scientists calculate, be a sufficiently large number of civilisations that we would have heard about some by now.
It is suggested that this failure implies that something is wrong with the scientific arguments. This observation is imagined to imply a further larger factor which we do not yet know, a "Great Filter" which reduces the large number of places where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of places where it actually has been found (one).
Great Filter
answered 17 hours ago
Michael Harvey
5,49711019
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The "Great Filter" in astronomy is a way of talking about the Fermi Paradox, that is, the paradox that although scientists have argued that the probability of extraterrestrial civilisations existing is high, no evidence has been found.
When working out how many planets might have intelligent life that we can detect, we can apply various "filters". Some examples of these: our technology for detecting them has only existed for around 100 years (radio etc). Some planets will be too small to have an atmosphere that supports life; some might have a poisonous atmosphere, be too hot, too cold, have too much radiation, etc. Some might simply not have existed long enough or be too far away. Even after applying these "filters", there ought, the scientists calculate, be a sufficiently large number of civilisations that we would have heard about some by now.
It is suggested that this failure implies that something is wrong with the scientific arguments. This observation is imagined to imply a further larger factor which we do not yet know, a "Great Filter" which reduces the large number of places where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of places where it actually has been found (one).
Great Filter
answered 17 hours ago
Michael Harvey
5,49711019
The "Great Filter" in astronomy is a way of talking about the Fermi Paradox, that is, the paradox that although scientists have argued that the probability of extraterrestrial civilisations existing is high, no evidence has been found.
When working out how many planets might have intelligent life that we can detect, we can apply various "filters". Some examples of these: our technology for detecting them has only existed for around 100 years (radio etc). Some planets will be too small to have an atmosphere that supports life; some might have a poisonous atmosphere, be too hot, too cold, have too much radiation, etc. Some might simply not have existed long enough or be too far away. Even after applying these "filters", there ought, the scientists calculate, be a sufficiently large number of civilisations that we would have heard about some by now.
It is suggested that this failure implies that something is wrong with the scientific arguments. This observation is imagined to imply a further larger factor which we do not yet know, a "Great Filter" which reduces the large number of places where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of places where it actually has been found (one).
Great Filter
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Michael Harvey
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Michael Harvey
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Have you tried to google the answer?
– raleigh
17 hours ago
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I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it’s not a question about the English language.
– Jim
16 hours ago