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The night sky holds countless stars yet offers a quiet that settles with unusual depth. A century of listening is a brief moment beside stellar lifetimes, so silence may reflect timing as much as absence. If this mystery speaks to you, explore the full journey in the article shared in the earlier post.

#FermiParadox #Cosmos #Space #TPC8

Brian Cox's take on the Great Filter is one of those ideas that stays with you.

We keep asking where everyone is, but maybe the more unsettling question is this: what if the universe is quiet because advanced civilisations rarely make it very far?

If the Great Filter is behind us, we are unbelievably lucky. If it is ahead of us, that says something grim about the future of intelligent life.

Worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

What do you think the filter is?

#BrianCox #GreatFilter #FermiParadox #Space #Science #Cosmology

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Suddenly you get it 🤦‍♀️ The solution to Fermi's paradox: We're in the Universe's spam box

#FermiParadox

Bataille, capitalisme autodestructeur et Empire du chaos : une réponse au paradoxe de Fermi

💥 Et si l’accumulation capitaliste, analysée par Bataille, expliquait le « grand filtre » du paradoxe de Fermi ?
Entre autodestruction systémique et chaos géopolitique, la critique rejoint celle d’Alain Joxe sur l’Empire du chaos : la logique du surplus mène à la violence globale, pas à la durabilité. #Bataille #EmpireDuChaos #FermiParadox #Capitalisme #Joxe

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/bataille-capitalisme-autodestructeur-et-empire-du-chaos-une-reponse-au-paradoxe-de-fermi/

“Great Silence” in narrowband radio technosignature searches over the past several decades may be caused by spectral broadening in interplanetary medium.

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems, making them difficult to detect.
https://www.seti.org/news/why-seti-might-have-been-missing-alien-signals/

Exo–IPM Scattering as a Hidden Gatekeeper of Narrowband Technosignatures https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3d33

"Narrowband radio technosignatures can be significantly modulated by the host star’s exoplanetary interplanetary medium (Exo-IPM), where turbulence in stellar winds and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) imprint spectral broadening. ..

#seti #astronomy #FermiParadox

Brian Cox: The terrifying possibility of the Great Filter - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

#ExtraterrestrialLife #FermiParadox