Chapter 912: The fermi paradox (3) (1/2)

Peter then focused his thought about another possibility which is the Great Filter could be the jump from simple prokaryote cell to the complex eukaryote cell.

After prokaryote came into being they remained that way for almost two billion years before making the evolutionary jump to being complex and having a nucleus.

If this is the Great Filter it would mean the universe is teeming with simple prokaryote cells and almost nothing beyond that

And there is also the possibility that even the most recent leap humanity has made from the medieval life to the Industrial Revolution is a Great Filter candidate.

While the leap from semi intelligent life to intelligent life doesn't at first seem like miraculous step, some scientist rejects the idea of an inevitable climb upward of evolution.

Since evolution does not strive for a goal but just happens, it uses the adaptation most useful for a given ecological niche and the fact that on Earth led to technological intelligence only once so far may suggest that this outcome of natural selection is rare and hence by no means a certain development of the evolution of a tree of life

Mots leaps actually do not qualify as a Great Filter candidate.

Any possible Great Filter event must be one in a billion type thing where one of more total freak occurs need to happen to provide a crazy exception.

And for that reason, something like the jump from a single cell to multi cellular life is ruled out because it has occurred as many as forty-six time before the fall and in an isolated incident, just on Earth alone.

For the same reason if humanity were to find a fossilized eukaryote cells on any of the planets around Earth, it would rule the above simple to complex cell leap out as a possible Great Filter as well as anything before that point on the evolutionary chain because if it happened both on Earth and on the other planet, it is almost definitely not one in a billon freak occurrence

Of course, this argument is broken after the Fall since humanity find out we are not rare as we thought we are and there is a lot of more civilization out there that evolve the same way we are.

And then there is the argument that we, humanity itself is the first.

For the subscribers to this idea, they held hope that if the Great Filter is not behind us, the one hope humanity have is that the condition in the universe are just recently, for the first time since the Big Bang, reaching a place that would allow intelligent life to develop.

In that case, humanity and many other species scattered all over the Universe may be on our way to superintelligence.

And it just hasn't happened yet. This idea believe that we happen to be here at the right time to become one the first super intelligent civilization in the Universe.

There is an example of this.

One example of this phenomenon that could make this realistic is the prevalence of gamma ray burst, and insanely huge explosion that humanity have observed in distant galaxies.

In the same way that it took the early Earth a few hundred million years before the asteroid and the volcanoes to died down and life became possible, it could be argued that the first chunk of the universe existence was full of cataclysmic events like gamma ray burst that would incinerate everything nearby from time to time and prevent any life from developing past a certain stage of evolution.

And the idea was that humanity is in the midst of an astrobiological phase transition and this is the first any life has been able to evolve this long, uninterrupted without any disaster like the gamma ray burst of some cataclysmic event to wipe them all out in one second

Of course, this is also debunked since humanity learn that they are not the first. Here are others before them like the Asgardians and the Olympians.

Then if the two out of three possible realities for humanity has been debunked, then there is only one possibility left and it is one of the possibility that would chill everyone heart

The last possibility is that the Great Filter is ahead of humanity evolutionary progress and that means humanity is fucked.

Since humanity is not rare nor is it early, then we could conclude that the Great Filter is in humanity future

Right now, both Loki and Peter had stopped walking. Loki only look at his disciple face expression that changes every few seconds.

Peter is actually accessing this mind trying to dig out the information that is in his memory

Then suddenly, Peter look toward his teacher and then he asks

'It is in the future?'

Loki nodded as he understood what Peter is trying to say. Peter also had new understanding of the Destroyer from the words of his teacher.

Of course he is not sure yet whether his speculation is right or not so he still has to do some thinking. But he believes he is approaching to that perfect conclusion.

Loki then said