{"id":38674,"date":"2016-08-17T02:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T01:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=38674"},"modified":"2016-08-17T02:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T01:06:33","slug":"the-great-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/the-great-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hoping this will be more fun \/ less confrontational, but certainly ID and non-ID perspectives will differ. In a nutshell ‘The Great Filter’ is an event that stops life inevitably filling the universe. Others have written much better accounts, so here is your background reading:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Drake Equation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Fermi Paradox<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Filter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

One-stop synopsis if you don’t want the top 3<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What do the folks here think? Is there a great filter(s) are we past it \/ them? My vote is there is at least one ahead of us and we probably won’t make it. Candidates include:<\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental catastrophe, war using highly potent (N\/B\/C) weapons, religious zealotry taking us backwards..<\/span><\/p>\n

I also think other possibilities are flawed assumptions in the Fermi Paradox (maybe marginal \/ diminishing utility in expansion beyond a certain point, or perhaps transcendence out of this physical realm for sufficiently advanced species. Certainly a million SciFi tropes (Let’s see if we can make a list? Childhood’s End, Mass Effect…) have come from this. What do you folks think?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoping this will be more fun \/ less confrontational, but certainly ID and non-ID perspectives will differ. In a nutshell ‘The Great Filter’ is an event that stops life inevitably filling the universe. Others have written much better accounts, so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}