Have you find out of the Fermi Paradox ? It ’s the conundrum due to the fact we have n’t found exotic lifespan yet , despite other planets in our extragalactic nebula seeming to number in the billions .
There are several solutions to the theory . One is that we merely have n’t looked hard enough yet . Another is that we ’re being look out , and they ’re waiting until we ’re innovative enough to make impinging .
A more sobering root , though , is that intelligent lifespan has , by its nature , a comparatively modest window of existence in the age of the universe . Through one of a act of possible disasters , either self - made or instinctive such as an asteroid impact , intelligent life on any cave in planet has but a abbreviated snip of prison term to exist before it vanish . This idea is known as The Great Filter .
What might such a Great Filter be like on Earth ? Well , it could be an aforementioned asteroid encroachment . It could , somewhat less likely , be a rogue gamma - ray burst frying our planet . But it could , more feasibly , be climate modification ridding our planet of its habitability .
To find out for sure , President - elect Donald Trump is planning to perform the great experiment of all time , perhaps to enlighten the rest of the universe and monish of the perils of drastically castrate a satellite ’s mood . He ’s planning to unknowingly release a motortruck - warhead of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere , and see what happens .
For a while , it seemed Trump was consider not carrying out this Great experimentation and was instead warm ( see what we did there ) to the fact that humans were the primary cause of climate change , despite antecedently declaring such an idea a hoax . In an interview with theNew York Timeslast week , he said :
“ I have an open psyche to it [ climate change ] . We ’re run to face very cautiously . ”
This gave some people counterbalance to the Great Experiment a brief moment of hope .
But fear not , for they have been struck down with the almightiest carbon hammer . In an audience this past Sunday , his incoming chief of staff , Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus , toldFox News :
“ As far as this issue on clime change – the only matter he was say after being asked a few questions about it is , take care , he ’ll have an open psyche about it but he has his default position , which most of it is a bunch of bunk bed , but he ’ll have an open mind and hear to people . I think that ’s what he ’s say . ”
Perhaps in millennium to come , when our major planet is but a smoulder shipwreck , an alien race will come across our ruins and remark “ hmm , it ’s a good matter we did n’t elect that demagog . ”
