Fermi Paradox Great Filters
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I posted this list of Fermi paradox great filters on another board. What do you guys think? Any I'm missing? Care to critique the ones I've listed?
>Rare Earth: Habitable planets, with all the conditions necessary to potentially give rise to life, may be rare
>Abiogenesis: Even on planets that could potentially support life, life actually coming about from non-living matter may be an extremely rare occurrence, or it could be common, we just don't know
>Evolving into complex life: On the scale of time that life on Earth has been around, Eukaryotic life only evolved relatively recently, and the Cambrian Explosion, when multicellular animals really rose to prominence for the first time, occured even more recently.
>Rare intelligence: It may turn out that sapience like ours is only an evolutionary adaption worth selecting for in rare cases, one of which we in that case happen to be.
>Rare technology: Even intelligent life may be discouraged from developing basic technology. For example: a species may have a strong aversion to fire, the most basic and fundamental technology.
>Late filters: The ones we have yet to pass, things that may tend to be the downfall of advanced civilization later on down the line, such as climate change and nuclear war.
>Rare Earth: Habitable planets, with all the conditions necessary to potentially give rise to life, may be rare
>Abiogenesis: Even on planets that could potentially support life, life actually coming about from non-living matter may be an extremely rare occurrence, or it could be common, we just don't know
>Evolving into complex life: On the scale of time that life on Earth has been around, Eukaryotic life only evolved relatively recently, and the Cambrian Explosion, when multicellular animals really rose to prominence for the first time, occured even more recently.
>Rare intelligence: It may turn out that sapience like ours is only an evolutionary adaption worth selecting for in rare cases, one of which we in that case happen to be.
>Rare technology: Even intelligent life may be discouraged from developing basic technology. For example: a species may have a strong aversion to fire, the most basic and fundamental technology.
>Late filters: The ones we have yet to pass, things that may tend to be the downfall of advanced civilization later on down the line, such as climate change and nuclear war.
