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"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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:44PM (1 child)
Fermi's paradox includes this from the link in TFS (emphasis mine):
So maybe these advanced intelligent forms of life visited our solar system before the Earth had formed? Or before life had taken hold on Earth? Or when the dinosaurs (or their predecessors) where stomping around?
Timing is everything (just ask my wife) and these proposed visitors may have already come and gone.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:52PM
Maybe they visited Earth at a point where humans were not a threat, but were recognized as having high potential to become a threat.
They put us on the schedule of planets to be harvested.
Our date on the schedule has simply not arrived yet, or it takes time for the harvesting crew to get here.
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