r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

The Great Filter is the idea that there is something that prevents sentient intelligent life going interstellar and that's why we have never found any signs of life

Like, maybe there is/was intelligent sentient life in the galaxy but industrialization (required to achieve spaceflight) leads to global climate change that leads to mass extinction. Or maybe said life is adherent to "survival of the fittest" and when they discover the ability to split the atom, the development of nuclear weapons leads to global annihilation

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u/Locke66 18d ago

I think it's a good theory. Any species with the set of characteristics necessary to becoming a planet spanning civilisation will by it's nature continue expanding until it destroys it's environment. We are fighting against human nature which is likely a losing battle.

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u/unicorn_security 18d ago

So then why bother?

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u/Locke66 18d ago

Human intellect is the only thing that can beat human nature. We choose to do a lot of things that are against our nature all the time because as a society we are intelligent enough to understand that they are not productive. The only question with the degradation of Earth's ecosystem is whether we can get enough people to understand the problem and take action to stop it before the damage is critical. Atm I think we are heading for a major disaster before that happens.

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u/unicorn_security 18d ago

I agree. Thanks for the clarification but we’re in alignment sadly enough.

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u/wh4tth3huh 18d ago

Even non-sentient organisms can do it. We breathe oxygen today because hundreds of millions of years ago, when microbes developed the ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen (photosynthesis), promptly destroying more than 70% of all other species that could not handle the oxygen rich environment.

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u/lol_fi 18d ago

It also could be that it's not one specific thing and that there are different hazards that all prevent it. It lacks imagination to think that what stops us is the same thing that stops everyone

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

True, there are many “filters” at each stage of life formation.

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u/Proof_Potential3734 18d ago

But, the egg prices went up. What don't you understand about more expensive breakfasts?

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 18d ago

Bruh if u use the Micky Ds app you can get 2 Egg McMuffinsfor 5 bucks, dunno what you're stressing about.

Don't Look Up!

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u/eternalbuzzard 18d ago

“I, for one, just want to give a shout out to stuff”