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  • Life in the Universe #3: The Great Filter


    Added on Saturday 24 July 2010 23:14:43
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    Doing some tweeting here: http://twitter.com/TonuDarnell

    Whew! This was the hardest video for me (by far) to make. I started this script on August 21, 2009 and I'm finally finishing this up almost a year later. I would encourage anyone who has any questions to make comments, I'll by happy to try to help because I think this is a very important, albeit very difficult concept to understand.

    The format is a little different, I used a green screen for the first time, please let me know what you think.

    After this, I think I need to start DeepLobotmy.com

    Thanks for your patience!

    All music used was used with permission and under the Creative Commons License.

    Living Voyage: Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Living+voyage&Search=Search
    Colossus: Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Colossus
    Spacerun Part 6: trustno1 http://www.archive.org/details/Spacerun
    Skyships: Brokenkites http://www.archive.org/details/brokenkites_the_envious_dead



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  • MegaRoFLL

    @Walshyman hmm u have a point
    Wednesday 08 February 2012 21:40:17
  • MsPerduta

    The basic building blocks for life could have originated elsewhere and spread across several planets in out solar system e.g. from a comet's tail... thus it may be wrong to draw conclusions if we do find signs of life in our solar system. Also more advanced technology civilizations might not need to send out signals that would. All the aliens might have cable ;o)
    Wednesday 01 February 2012 22:04:18
  • U1T001

    @Wolfsrain90 No, no, the specification of the Great Filter should be s.th. like that: 1. Have a beautiful structure 2. Should possess some class of impossibility in physics at least 3. Should bring chaos into the system 4. Should present the things upside-down 5. Should operate beyond the formal logic 6. Should send the economy in the Dimension X 7. Should lead the intelligent life on a wrong road 8. It should have a class of impossibility in time -the switch-over is missed somewhere in the past
    Thursday 26 January 2012 09:13:02
  • Wolfsrain90

    The great filter is the reapers.
    Wednesday 25 January 2012 21:37:45
  • U1T001

    IMV the main components of the Great Filter (rated by priority) are: 1. Energy constraints & CO2 problem 2. Modern Money Mechanics & the financial problems 3. Economic manipulation and false shortages 4. Unlimited greed and consumption in a world with constrained resources 5. Neglecting major contradictions esp. in physics 6. Sub-optimal operation of the economy 7. Political corruption 8. Misinformation & disinformation 9. Overpopulation and irresponsibility 10. Cross-religion misunderstandings
    Friday 20 January 2012 10:35:57
  • VidkunQL

    Your first "filter" is probably not very strong, since bacterial life appeared on Earth about as soon as conditions allowed it to survive. That is not true of complex life, so the second filter appears to be much stronger. Likewise intelligence took a long time to arise, so that may be a strong filter. (You misuse the word "coincidence" in your first sentence, and your reasoning at the end is bad: several worlds reaching the 3.5Gy point within 200Ky of each other would be a REAL coincidence.)
    Thursday 19 January 2012 18:41:09
  • U1T001

    @Mldayuniverse Probably, but this is not interesting. The interesting ones are ahead of us & the closest one is the most interesting for we or our grandchildren will have to go through it. I was looking at the world debt clock -over 44 trillion of hanging debt, divided at 7 BLN (the population) makes USD 6320 per capita, & it is continuously growing. Who, how and when is going to pay up these debts. Isn't it high time to announce the Modern Money Mechanics as triple junk (JJJ) as it actually is.
    Sunday 15 January 2012 02:13:05
  • Mldayuniverse

    Is it possible that there could be multiple filters throughout the history of a planet?
    Saturday 14 January 2012 18:14:04
  • U1T001

    The dimension of money as tangible value (of this world) does not come out. On one side of the Future Value of Money we have value, & on the other side value on the power of time => class of impossibility 3 in physics. If money is not value, let's assume it is a formal model of greed. On one side of the equation we have unlimited time series of greed and debt accumulation, and on the other side constrained resources on the earth-infinity has a finite value-class of impossibility 3 in mathematics
    Saturday 14 January 2012 02:17:15
  • U1T001

    RE: 'I don't quite understand the last one' The financial system is engaged with redistribution of the economic wealth & structuring of pyramids of any kind rather than dealing with real world problems. It is based on Money as Debt, but no debt has ever disappeared just so without conflicts. Contradictions in the self cannot be resolved without restructuring/abolishing the whole system. Without releasing the financial system from its problems no real problem in the physical world could be solved
    Friday 13 January 2012 23:48:45
  • 1SMF0F

    @U1T001 I didn't quite understand that last 1, but the other 2 are very true and quite plausible. Kind of depressing. :(
    Friday 13 January 2012 22:13:55
  • U1T001

    @1SMF0F Another aspect maybe exhausting the resources of the planet and getting extinct before being able to move to another planet. Or changing to climate to such an extend (as a result of CO2 emissions) that we start loosing the vegetation and 'go south'. Or perhaps having a financial system with two major contradictions - class of impossibility 3 in physics (because of time in the future value) and unlimited formal model of greed operating in a constrained physical world of limited resources.
    Friday 13 January 2012 09:34:26
  • ah4fecksake

    Videos like these should have a 'wow' button beside the like/dislike butttons. Incredible stuff.
    Monday 26 December 2011 17:56:30
  • Walshyman

    IMO going from "unintelligent" life to "intelligent" life is the great filter. Look how many life forms there are on our planet, but how many of them are sentient? Only us.
    Friday 23 December 2011 20:46:20
  • mywonderjam

    @qixxxz Pure as pure can get in its truth. Amazing.
    Monday 28 November 2011 08:56:22
  • xTSxALLDAY

    MISTAKE!!! Eukaryota aren't necessarily multicellular! Euglena for example, is a unicellular protist. I'm smart and not a complete douchebag no life tool.
    Saturday 26 November 2011 07:40:33
  • Zurround100

    even if COMPLEX life evolves there is no guarantee of intelligent technologically advanced life sending us radio waves. We could not even have interstellar communication if you go back in time even several decades. I imagine a universe filled with life but only a VERY small percentage of those worlds sending out radio signals. SETI seriously needs to stop relying so much on receiving a radio message.
    Saturday 26 November 2011 05:34:41
  • 1SMF0F

    Our great filter: Being able to overcome the temptation to use nuclear warfare and ultimately destroy ourselves from it.
    Friday 04 November 2011 12:50:25
  • wchaya

    it is better for that guy ...not to show himself....and just talk behind the scene and images...... he is boring....
    Tuesday 25 October 2011 13:22:18
  • FrezhPrincez

    That guy is creepy! Lol
    Tuesday 25 October 2011 05:38:37
  • qixxxz

    We don't play god, we ARE god. When matter finds a way to think and contemplate itself, as in our own "intelligent mind" , we become the cosmos, looking at itself. Of all the millions of species, in all the millions of years, only one has risen to that occasion here. Here, life seems to be easy. Inventing the wheel is the hard part.
    Monday 24 October 2011 01:15:57
  • BudCharles999

    I reckon the filter is... now.
    Sunday 16 October 2011 03:58:36
  • BudCharles999

    Overpopulation, Religious War, Climate Change, we've got quite a few filters...
    Sunday 16 October 2011 03:54:48
  • AKlover

    FTL travel would qualify as a filter would it not? Exhausting a planet before developing the ability to reach another habitable planet.
    Tuesday 11 October 2011 23:48:49
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