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Who's listening? The Fermi Paradox has a potentially terrifying answer: "The Dark Forest"







Description: "In the vast silence of the cosmos, one unsettling theory lingers: What if we’re not alone, everyone else is hiding?


"The Dark Forest Hypothesis" offers a chilling answer to the Fermi Paradox: intelligent civilizations may be out there, but they stay silent out of fear.


Astronomer David Kipping explores the risks of shouting into the void, the psychology of cosmic survival, and whether alien civilizations might already know we’re here."

 
 

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One  objective:
facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”


—Eden Phillpotts

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries.

Nikola Tesla

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Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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