"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: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:50PM
Seek simplicity, not complexity.
Once you have a 2nd data point:
1. jump up and down
2. plot both points on a graph and draw a straight line through it
3. loudly proclaim "we now understand EVERYTHING about this phenomena!"
No need to make things overly complex.
Don't over engineer. Don't gold plate.
The simplest solution tends to be the most economically profitable one.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.