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Where Are The Aliens? How The ‘Great Filter’ Could Affect Tech Advances In Space
Kepler-62f, an exoplanet that is about 40% larger than Earth. It’s located about 1,200 light-years from our solar system in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
“One of the main things we’re focused on is the notion of existential risk, getting a sense of what the probability of human extinction is,” said Andrew Snyder-Beattie, who recently wrote a piece on the “Great Filter” for Ars Technica.
As Snyder-Beattie explained in the article, the “Great Filter” is a response to the question of why we can’t see any alien civilizations. The “Great Filter” deals with similar issues as the Drake Equation, which talks about the probability of communicating civilizations outside of Earth, and the Fermi Paradox, which asks where the civilizations are.
Simply speaking, the idea is that if a civilization continues to expand (especially at the technological pace we humans have experienced), it wouldn’t take all that long in the lifespan of the universe for artificial processes to be visible with our own telescopes. Yes, this is even taking into account a presumed speed limit of no more than the speed of light. So something could be preventing these civilizations from showing up. That’s an important part of the Great Filter, but more details about it are below.
Here are a few possibilities for why the filter exists, both from Snyder-Beattie and from the person who first named the Great Filter, Robin Hanson, in 1996.
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Why can’t we see any alien civilizations?
Where have these guys been?
Ancient ‘Messengers’
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/32ancmsg.htm
Levels of Deception (Roswell, 1947)
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62lofd1.htm
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62lofd2.htm
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62lofd3.htm
UFOs over Washington DC – 1952
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVQFqOf3yA
UFOs over Nuclear Weapons
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/61ufox.htm
UFOs – Setting the Record Straight
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62ufos1.htm
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62ufos2.htm
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/62ufos3.htm
Part II above discusses the intentional coverup of artificial structures on the moon and Mars.
The truth of the existence of extraterrestrial cultures has been intentionally hidden from the people of Earth for a very long time now, and articles like this one which intentionally ignore the abundance of evidence which still remains despite the best efforts of counterintelligence to hide it, are themselves a counterintelligence invalidation. Just like SETI. What better way to invalidate the fact that extraterrestrial cultures exist than to create an “official” program to “look for them”.
So why has this coverup continued?
The Role of Earth
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/63roe.htm
The Non-Interference Lie – part II
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/72nil1.htm
Between-Lives Implanting
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/74bli1.htm
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/74bli2.htm
Past Life Memories 2
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/34plm2.htm
The “great filter” is counterintelligence…
The Struggle for Freedom
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/31strffrd.htm
Intelligence versus Counterintelligence
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/30ivsci.htm
Historical Methods of Counterintelligence
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/35hmofci.htm
And the unwillingness of most people to confront the truth
A Notice to “Commander Ashtar”…
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/85nca.htm
Orientation
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/01orien.htm
Levels of the Game
http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/01levels.htm