Written by Luke McKinney
The Great Filter is the idea that there is some single, almost insurmountably improbable barrier on the path to the stars that explains why weve never seen any sign of alien life. It combines aspects of astrology, biology and history to arrive at one inescapable conclusion: university professors dream of book deals.
Robin Hanson of George Mason University posits a Great Filter that prevents the rise of intelligent, self-aware, technologically advanced, space-coloniz....

