Since people are talking about it today, I'm going to repeat my (very dull) Great Filter proposal: a) There's, for real, no cheating the light barrier, and no good technologies for coming close to it. No undiscovered cheat codes. Interstellar travel is never viable.
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b) Civilizations that make the transition to ubiquitous electronics also discover and implement ubiquitous encryption, to the point that their energy emissions are indistinguishable from background noise. Miss the short period between #1 and #2 and they're invisible.
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That's it, that's the theory. Billions of civilizations ignoring each other, because what's the point?
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Out of billions, maybe even just one wants to put up a giant signpost saying "we were here"?
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Mankind's destiny is to spraypaint the galaxy
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probably with a giant penis
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Replying to @random_eddie @St_Rev
This is the optimistic take I needed today
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