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Given the multitude of stars in the sky and what we've observed about the orbiting planets, why haven't we observe alien life? [The Great Filter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM) is one possible explanataion; perhaps there's some tremendous physical or social hurdle to interstellar travel which no alien life has ever cleared.
Given the multitude of stars in the sky and what we've observed about the orbiting planets, why haven't we observe alien life? [The Great Filter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM) is one possible explanation; perhaps there's some tremendous physical or social hurdle to interstellar travel which no alien life has ever cleared.

When I learned of the Great Filter hypothesis, I immediately wondered if the Tower of Babel story (https://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11%3A1-9&version=NIV) describes an ancient failure to pass the Filter. A "tower that reaches to the heavens" sounds like interstellar aspirations, particularly when "nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."

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