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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the own-worst-enemy dept.

"Alexander Berezin, a theoretical physicist at the National Research University of Electronic Technology in Russia, has proposed a new answer to Fermi's paradox — but he doesn't think you're going to like it. Because, if Berezin's hypothesis is correct, it could mean a future for humanity that's 'even worse than extinction.'

'What if,' Berezin wrote in a new paper posted March 27 to the preprint journal arxiv.org, 'the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?'" foxnews.com/science/2018/06/04/aliens-are-real-but-humans-will-probably-kill-them-all-new-paper-says.html

In other words, could humanity's quest to discover intelligent life be directly responsible for obliterating that life outright? What if we are, unwittingly, the universe's bad guys?

And if you are not sure what the Fermi paradox is then the link should help, and there is a long explanation of that one in the article.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Revek on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:27PM (2 children)

    by Revek (5022) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:27PM (#689289)

    Written by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Why come up with something new when you can rip off the guy who thought up the communications satellite.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:37PM (#689291)
    "Russian Physicist Re-Proposes New Old Solution to the Fermi Paradox"

    Better?
    • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:16PM

      by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:16PM (#689527)

      "Experts say Russian physicist HACKED into solution server and allegedly interfered with the answer to the Fermi Paradox"

      My personal favorite.