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Intelligent Life Might Always Go Extinct Once It Develops Technology
International Business TimesIntelligent life goes extinct shortly after becoming technologically advanced and that’s why we haven’t been able to connect with any alien species, one scientist is arguing.
At the center of his assertion is the mediocrity principle, which is popular among astronomers and dictates that there is nothing special about our species, our planet or our solar system — that everything that went into the evolution of human life on Earth could have happened in other places as well. It thus also dictates that the state in which we find ourselves is completely typical and can be generally applied to the rest of the universe.
University of Arkansas professor Daniel Whitmire is suggesting that if we go by this principle, it stands to reason that any technological species would find themselves in a similar situation to humans on Earth: “that they are both the first such species to evolve on their planet and also that they are early in their potential technological evolution,” according to his paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology. He argues that this implies intelligent species do not exist further along in technological evolution because they have gone “extinct soon after attaining a modern technology and that this event results in the extinction of the planet’s global biosphere.”
Video at the link
And it looks like the human race is right on schedule to destroy itself by destroying its ecosystem.
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Back when you were someone else in a previous incarnation. 
Thanks 
However, we appear to have strong evidence of the presence of presumably intelligent visitors to our somewhat fucked-up little backwater here?
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/03/20/strong-evidence-shows-extraterrestrials-have-been-shutting-down-nuclear-missiles-worldwide-for-decades-but-why/
"... During the early morning hours, more than one report came in from security patrols and maintenance crews that they had seen UFOs. A UFO was, in fact, reported directly above one of the E-Flight silos. At least one security policeman, it later turned out, was so affected by this encounter that he never again returned to missile security duty.
Around 8:30 a.m., Deputy Crew Commander Figel was briefing Carlson, the Crew Commander, on the “flight status” when the alarm horn sounded. One of the Minuteman missiles they supervised had strangely gone off alert—it became inoperable. The off alert occurred at one of the two sites where maintenance crews had camped out on site. Upset, thinking maintenance personnel had failed to notify him that the missile was going to off alert status, as required when maintenance work is done on a missile, Figel immediately called the missile site.
When Figel spoke with the on-site security guard, the guard reported that maintenance had not yet been performed that morning. He also stated that a UFO had been hovering over the site. Figel recalled thinking the guard “must have been drinking something.” However, incredibly, now other missiles started to go off alert in rapid succession. Within seconds, the entire flight of ten ICBMs was down. All of the missiles reported a No-Go condition. One by one, across the board, each missile had became inoperable..."
https://montanapioneer.com/malmstrom-officers-report-ufo-shut-down-icbms/
Around 8:30 a.m., Deputy Crew Commander Figel was briefing Carlson, the Crew Commander, on the “flight status” when the alarm horn sounded. One of the Minuteman missiles they supervised had strangely gone off alert—it became inoperable. The off alert occurred at one of the two sites where maintenance crews had camped out on site. Upset, thinking maintenance personnel had failed to notify him that the missile was going to off alert status, as required when maintenance work is done on a missile, Figel immediately called the missile site.
When Figel spoke with the on-site security guard, the guard reported that maintenance had not yet been performed that morning. He also stated that a UFO had been hovering over the site. Figel recalled thinking the guard “must have been drinking something.” However, incredibly, now other missiles started to go off alert in rapid succession. Within seconds, the entire flight of ten ICBMs was down. All of the missiles reported a No-Go condition. One by one, across the board, each missile had became inoperable..."
https://montanapioneer.com/malmstrom-officers-report-ufo-shut-down-icbms/
