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A while back I wrote about the rather terrifying idea of the "Great Filter" -- that life, especially sentient life, might be rare...

As a followup to yesterday's post, about my generally dubious take on the claim of a Mexican scientist that he'd discovered fossiliz...

Usually, when people think about finding extraterrestrial intelligence, they think of radio transmissions -- a trope that has been the basis...

In yesterday's post, we looked at a gentleman who decided that founding his own church was the best approach to finding out if we're...

I've discussed the Fermi Paradox here at Skeptophilia  before -- and the cheerful idea of the Great Filter as the reason why we haven...

In yesterday's post, we looked at how the Drake Equation predicts the number of intelligent civilizations out there in the galaxy, and ...

There's a cheery idea called " The Great Filter ," have you heard of it? The whole concept came up when considering the po...