culling the species

[Alberto Monteiro]

Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>
> (...) And there is always the Fermi 
> paradox to keep in mind. Back in the 1960s some of us wondered if 
> the reason there were no other advanced civilizations out there is 
> that they blew themselves up with nuclear weapons or something like 
> that. Now there is an alternative possibility, they they could not 
> escape the Malthusian trap and destroyed themselves and their environment.
> 
Occam's razor solution to the Fermi paradox is that life is such
a rare phenomenon that it probably happens once in each 10^100
universes - the anthropic principle.

Alberto Monteiro