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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @04:55PM (3 children)
What about that orange and yellow guy in the White House?
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:19PM
Glitch in the matrix.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Fluffeh on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:14PM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @11:26PM
That object is corrupting the operating system. If it's not corrected, the entire Milky Way simulation may end up corrupted beyond repair, and we'll have to delete that galaxy instance and focus on the Zarxians instead.