"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: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:10PM
We don't necessarily need to monitor communications to find alien life. We can look at exoplanet atmospheres to look for indirect evidence of biospheres as well as intelligent life (capable of synthesizing chemicals not found in nature, or causing an unnatural imbalance in atmospheric composition).
JWST: 2020-2021?
Giant Magellan Telescope: 2023
Extremely Large Telescope: 2024
Thirty Meter Telescope: 2027?
LUVOIR/HDST/ATLAST: 2030s
Colossus Telescope: ???
Kilometer Space Telescope: ???
Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens (FOCAL): ???
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