Life in the Universe #3: The Great Filter

Doing some tweeting here: http://twitter.com/TonuDarnell

Whew! This was the hardest video for me (by far) to make. I started this script on August 21, 2009 and I'm finally finishing this up almost a year later. I would encourage anyone who has any questions to make comments, I'll by happy to try to help because I think this is a very important, albeit very difficult concept to understand.

The format is a little different, I used a green screen for the first time, please let me know what you think.

After this, I think I need to start DeepLobotmy.com

Thanks for your patience!

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• life in the universe
• deepastronomy
• aliens
• SETI
• extraterrestrials
• ET
• life on other planets
• cosmology

[4thDimensionGemini]

Think about this tho. What if the building blocks necessary to support life on earth isn't the same everywhere. For example what if somewhere way in another galaxy there is a planet with life supported by methane gas? We shouldn't assume all life needs liquid water to support it.

[MegaRoFLL]

@Walshyman hmm u have a point

[MsPerduta]

The basic building blocks for life could have originated elsewhere and spread across several planets in out solar system e.g. from a comet's tail... thus it may be wrong to draw conclusions if we do find signs of life in our solar system.

Also more advanced technology civilizations might not need to send out signals that would. All the aliens might have cable ;o)

[U1T001]

@Wolfsrain90

No, no, the specification of the Great Filter should be s.th. like that:

1. Have a beautiful structure

2. Should possess some class of impossibility in physics at least

3. Should bring chaos into the system

4. Should present the things upside-down

5. Should operate beyond the formal logic

6. Should send the economy in the Dimension X

7. Should lead the intelligent life on a wrong road

8. It should have a class of impossibility in time -the switch-over is missed somewhere in the past

[Wolfsrain90]

The great filter is the reapers.