"The Dark Forest" theory

"The Dark Forest" theory comes from a 2008 science-fiction novel "The Dark Forest". The theory presents an answer to the Fermi paradox, which is a conflict between clear lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life, and various high estimates of existence of said life, primarily base on the Drake equation, which was used to estimate amount of other intelligent civilizations in the whole universe. The theory states, that the reason for why we haven’t yet met any other sentient forms of extraterrestrial life is because said civilizations are purposefully hiding their existence based on fear of complete annihilation from other forms of life and at the same time try to detect and eliminate other civilizations before they are detected and eliminated, based on a more advanced “kill or be killed” doctrine. Based on this theory, two possibilities are created – either we haven’t met any alien civilizations due to them concealing their existence, or there is a single civilization killing off other civilizations which we could have theoretically met if they weren’t eliminated. This theory was also put forth by scientist David Brin, as a potential explanation to lack of radio evidence for existence od extraterrestrial life.











Links: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-heard-from-aliens-yet/

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  1. englishdiary19 lutego 2022 23:53

    If there supposedly exist numerous other civilisations in the universe, how probable is it that, for all of them, there is a single reason why they remain undetected? Also, why aren't humans guided by the same reasoning? We're not hiding or killing off other civilisations, are we?

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