The Great Silence: Unpacking the 12 Reasons Why Aliens Aren't Looking For Us

Alternatively, the Great Filter could lie ahead of us, an ominous prospect suggesting that all technological civilizations inevitably reach a stage where they self-destruct before achieving interstellar communication or travel. This barrier could manifest as catastrophic events like unmanaged climate change, a global nuclear conflict, or the unchecked development of dangerous artificial intelligence. In this scenario, other civilizations do not reach out because they all, tragically, perished shortly after developing the technology that would have enabled contact.