#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

8134.304 - 8153.95 Adam Frank

Like what we think of as ideas and culture and, you know, it's quite possible we're going to make it another 200 years and this is gone, right? Because it actually wasn't a very good idea long term. I mean, we just don't know. Oh, so maybe the idea generation organism is actually the thing that destroys everything. Not the biosphere, but it destroys itself. It may not be very long-term.