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 |  Subject: Were “Alien Civilizations” Wiped Out By The Same Thing We Are Preparing To Do?  Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:48 am | |
| Were “Alien Civilizations” Wiped Out By The Same Thing We Are Preparing To Do?
October 24, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 Sotos also believes his model might answer questions about the lack of evidence so far for extraterrestrial civilizations – that biotechnology might act as the so-called ‘Great Filter‘, bringing alien civilizations to an end before they can communicate with or travel to other planets with intelligent life. “[A]ssuming that the technology of interstellar colonization is far more daunting than biotechnology,” Sotos writes, “and that the self-preservation drives of individual intelligences far exceed any elective desire to migrate off-planet, it is reasonable to expect that, as a rule, civilizations will develop and use sophisticated biotechnology before dispersing themselves on other planets”. Thus, he says “it is reasonable to hypothesize that all planetary civilizations will face existential threats from contagious microorganisms – whether engineered or not – before they become vigorous interstellar colonizers”. (READ MORE) |
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