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hey Cosmic explorers imagine this you're
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out stargazing on a clear night
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marveling at the endless expanse of
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stars when a chilling thought hits you
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everybody with billions of stars and
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even more planets out there why haven't
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we met any alien civilizations yet
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Welcome To The Mystery of the fmy
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Paradox brought to you by Cosmic station
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and buckle up because today we're diving
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into why Finding aliens might not be the
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party we're hoping for but instead our
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Doom all right here's the deal the fmy
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Paradox is this baffling question if the
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universe is teaming with planets
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inhabitable zones why haven't we found
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ET waving back at us are we the only
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one's home in this Cosmic
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something darker at play brace
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yourselves because this is where the
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great filter comes in the great filter
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is like the universe's toughest escape
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room it's a hypothetical barrier that
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stops civilizations dead in their tracks
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before they can colonize the Stars think
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of it as the cosmic bouncer at the door
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to Interstellar advancement there are
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three possibilities each more unnerving
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last good news first maybe we've already
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passed the great filter life could be so
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rare or so fragile that just existing as
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an intelligent species makes us the
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winners but doesn't that make us kind of
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lonely imagine throwing a galaxy-wide
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block party and nobody shows up now the
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bad news what if the great filter is
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still in our future maybe every
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civilization reaches a point where they
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discover something some technology
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perhaps that leads to their own
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Extinction nuclear weapons runaway AI
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climate disaster sound
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familiar yeah this one's giving me the
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Shivers too then there's the spooky
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possibility the aliens are out there but
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we're too primitive to detect them or
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they're so Advanced that we're basically
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skyscraper or plot twist they're hiding
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on purpose because they know that
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meeting other civilizations doesn't
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usually end well Predator prey Dynamics
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anyone let's talk about what these
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filters could be nature isn't exactly a
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nurturing babysitter it's got Tricks up
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its sleeve giant asteroid impacts
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supernovas Gamay bursts boom whole
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planets sterilized and let's not forget
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biology maybe evolving from gooey
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microbes to space fairing Geniuses is
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think but if nature doesn't get you
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might the ability to create tools that
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can annihilate entire civilizations
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might just be the last stop on the great
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train picture this humans invent
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self-replicating Nanobots that eat
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or AI that decides were unnecessary
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yikes so what's the takeaway here first
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the great filter reminds us to tread
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lightly if we're alone we've got a
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responsibility to not mess this up if
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we're not alone well let's not light up
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a giant neon sign saying hey dinner's
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ready the best strategy learn explore
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and protect our little blue
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dot so Cosmic adventurers what do you
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think are we lucky survivors of a cosmic
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Hunger Games are we racing toward our
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own great filter moment or are aliens
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out there just waiting for us to catch
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up whatever the answer one thing's for
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sure the universe isn't just big it's
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mysteries stay curious stay safe and
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keep looking up this is Cosmic station
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signing off see next time
