Why is the universe so quiet? With trillions of galaxies and countless habitable planets, the cosmos should be teeming with advanced civilizations, yet all we hear is a profound, unsettling silence. This cosmic mystery, known as the Fermi Paradox, suggests that something is preventing life from becoming a galaxy spanning super civilization. Is there a "Great Filter" that almost no species can survive?In this deep dive, we explore the terrifying and fascinating Great Filter hypothesis. We'll map out the nine critical steps life must take to go from simple chemistry to interstellar colonization, and ask where the bottleneck could be. Could the filter be in our past a fantastically improbable event like the origin of life or the leap to complex cells that we’ve already miraculously overcome? Or is the filter happening right now, as our own technology creates planet altering threats like climate change and engineered pandemics? We'll journey back 252 million years to witness Earth's own filter- ike event, "The Great Dying," and investigate the emerging threat of ancient "zombie viruses" being released from thawing permafrost. The answer to this cosmic question has profound implications for the future of humanity.Join us as we weigh the evidence and confront the most sobering question of all: Is the Great Silence a sign that we've won the cosmic lottery, or is it a final, ominous warning that our greatest test is still to come? #GreatFilter #FermiParadox #Astrobiology #ExistentialRisk #Cosmology #DeepTime #SpaceScience #QuirkScienceEst. 00:00 - The Cosmic Silence: Introducing the Fermi ParadoxEst. 05:37 - The 9 Steps to a Galactic Civilization: A Map of Potential FiltersEst. 15:46 - A Filter in the Past: Earth's "Great Dying" Extinction EventEst. 22:43 - A Filter in the Future? Thawing "Zombie Viruses" & The Permafrost ThreatEst. 30:22 - The Final Conclusion: Are We Our Own Great Filter? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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