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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
To my mind, it's a hypothesis along the lines of the Moon Hoax hypothesis  |
I tend to put it in the same category as the Carter Catastrophe, actually;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
a thought experiment that might indicate something, if only how little we know.
If and when we explore more locations in the universe. the realities behind the Great Filter (or filters) might make themselves known.
But fairly soon we might start finding evidence of biospheres on terrestrial exoplanets; if these are commonplace, but intelligent life isn't, then we should ask ourselves how this might be explained.