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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, Insightful) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:04PM (2 children)
When you return home, everyone else is dead. Your "home" is where you are and your tribe is whom you are with. Space travel is incompatible with a biological makeup.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @08:09PM
Hunter/gatherers didn't necessarily have a "home". The tribe mostly moved together.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 08 2018, @01:42PM
This is only true if anti-aging isn't perfected by that time.
I have a feeling we will conquer our biology before routinely traveling to other star systems.
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