Why haven't we met other intelligent life yet? NASA scientists have a sad theory for us

Why haven't humans found traces of intelligent life on other planets so far? NASA scientists have an interesting theory about it. And it is pretty sad.

According to them, all intelligent life around, most likely, destroyed themselves before they could reach the degree of evolution and development, which is possible contact with alien civilizations. Moreover, the same fate most likely awaits humans.

According to the Great Filter theory, proposed by researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA in Southern California, during the life of the universe, there were other civilizations, but they all destroyed themselves before they could come into contact with Earth.

The authors of the scientific research fear that all intelligent life, including humans on Earth, have deep-seated dysfunctions that can lead to their self-destruction in a fairly short time.

Is self-destruction at the core of life?

Life may not have the innate qualities of "self-maintenance," and many scientists agree with this idea. Moreover, the pursuit of self-destruction may be at the heart of life.

Astrobiologist Boris Soterey of the Institute of Biology of the Higher Normal School (IBENS) in Paris, France, does not rule out that life appears randomly in the Universe from time to time and dies out after a while as a result of its own life activity.

This most likely happened on Mars, where, about 3.7 billion years ago, simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and emitted methane could live. As a result of their activities, the planet cooled so much that it became impossible to live on it, and the microbes became extinct.

Mankind on Earth today seems to be following the same path of self-destruction: most of the problems on the planet, including the greenhouse effect, are a direct result of our life activities. Garik Israelian, a well-known astrophysicist, author, and main organizer of the STARMUS festival, is sure that global warming, air pollution, and other ecological problems may very soon – in several tens of years – significantly worsen the conditions of life on Earth. Very soon mankind will have to think about moving to other planets. If, of course, they have time to do so before their complete self-destruction.

But do we have any hope of salvation?

According to NASA scientists, all those factors that today threaten intelligent life on Earth most likely were on other planets: these are nuclear wars, pandemics, climate change, and even uncontrolled artificial intelligence.

There is, however, a small hope of salvation for mankind. But to do so, we will have to take steps to prevent our own extinction, namely, to identify and eradicate the very destructive qualities that will lead to a catastrophic outcome. Moreover, to survive, humanity will have to work together, to cooperate.

The scientists noted history has shown that intra-species competition and, more importantly, cooperation have led us to the highest heights of invention.

According to the, yet today we spread ideas that impede long-term sustainable development, such as racism, genocide, inequality, and sabotage.