All intelligent life, they argue, has likely destroyed itself before reaching a sufficiently complex point in evolution to support such an encounter. And the same fate likely awaits humans unless we take action, they believe. The “Great Filter” theory – as in “filtering out” various life forms – posits that other civilizations, possibly several, have existed during the lifetime of the universe. But all were destroyed before they could make contact with Earth, noted the paper, “Dodging the ‘Great Filter’: Extraterrestrial Life and Humanity’s Future in the Universe.” The scientists fear that all intelligent life, like humans, has deep-rooted dysfunctions that can “snowball quickly into the Great Filter,” they wrote. But there is still some hope for humans — provided we can learn and take steps to avoid our own extinction, noted the paper by a team of researchers based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. “The key to humanity successfully traversing such a global filter is… identification [destructive] features in ourselves and neutralize them in advance,” astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and colleagues wrote in the paper that appeared online Oct. 23. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed. Anything that seems likely to wipe out humans would also threaten intelligent life on other planets, the authors argue. Possible culprits — which could be affected by humans or other intelligent life forms — include nuclear war, pandemics, climate change and uncontrolled artificial intelligence, the authors note. The trick, the biggest challenge of all, will be working together to survive, the researchers said. “History has shown that competition between species and, more importantly, cooperation, has led us to the highest peaks of invention. And yet we perpetuate concepts that seem to be the antithesis of long-term sustainable development: racism, genocide, inequality, sabotage,” the authors warn. The story continues See the full document here. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

title: “Nasa Scientists Present Theory On Why We Haven T Encountered Any Other Intelligent Life. It S Crash. " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-01” author: “Marcus Beck”

All intelligent life, they argue, has likely destroyed itself before reaching a sufficiently complex point in evolution to support such an encounter. And the same fate likely awaits humans unless we take action, they believe. The “Great Filter” theory – as in “filtering out” various life forms – posits that other civilizations, possibly several, have existed during the lifetime of the universe. But all were destroyed before they could make contact with Earth, noted the paper, “Dodging the ‘Great Filter’: Extraterrestrial Life and Humanity’s Future in the Universe.” The scientists fear that all intelligent life, like humans, has deep-rooted dysfunctions that can “snowball quickly into the Great Filter,” they wrote. But there is still some hope for humans — provided we can learn and take steps to avoid our own extinction, noted the paper by a team of researchers based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. “The key to humanity successfully traversing such a global filter is… identification [destructive] features in ourselves and neutralize them in advance,” astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and colleagues wrote in the paper that appeared online Oct. 23. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed. Anything that seems likely to wipe out humans would also threaten intelligent life on other planets, the authors argue. Possible culprits — which could be affected by humans or other intelligent life forms — include nuclear war, pandemics, climate change and uncontrolled artificial intelligence, the authors note. The trick, the biggest challenge of all, will be working together to survive, the researchers said. “History has shown that competition between species and, more importantly, cooperation, has led us to the highest peaks of invention. And yet we perpetuate concepts that seem to be the antithesis of long-term sustainable development: racism, genocide, inequality, sabotage,” the authors warn. The story continues See the full document here. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

title: “Nasa Scientists Present Theory On Why We Haven T Encountered Any Other Intelligent Life. It S Crash. " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-16” author: “Margaret Armstead”

All intelligent life, they argue, has likely destroyed itself before reaching a sufficiently complex point in evolution to support such an encounter. And the same fate likely awaits humans unless we take action, they believe. The “Great Filter” theory – as in “filtering out” various life forms – posits that other civilizations, possibly several, have existed during the lifetime of the universe. But all were destroyed before they could make contact with Earth, noted the paper, “Dodging the ‘Great Filter’: Extraterrestrial Life and Humanity’s Future in the Universe.” The scientists fear that all intelligent life, like humans, has deep-rooted dysfunctions that can “snowball quickly into the Great Filter,” they wrote. But there is still some hope for humans — provided we can learn and take steps to avoid our own extinction, noted the paper by a team of researchers based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. “The key to humanity successfully traversing such a global filter is… identification [destructive] features in ourselves and neutralize them in advance,” astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and colleagues wrote in the paper that appeared online Oct. 23. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed. Anything that seems likely to wipe out humans would also threaten intelligent life on other planets, the authors argue. Possible culprits — which could be affected by humans or other intelligent life forms — include nuclear war, pandemics, climate change and uncontrolled artificial intelligence, the authors note. The trick, the biggest challenge of all, will be working together to survive, the researchers said. “History has shown that competition between species and, more importantly, cooperation, has led us to the highest peaks of invention. And yet we perpetuate concepts that seem to be the antithesis of long-term sustainable development: racism, genocide, inequality, sabotage,” the authors warn. The story continues See the full document here. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.