From 9a75411ed5cae7859e71a7813ab45b7421bc6df2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Caleb Callaway Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:36:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo --- content/blog/the-great-filter.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/blog/the-great-filter.md b/content/blog/the-great-filter.md index 4081274..be04d89 100644 --- a/content/blog/the-great-filter.md +++ b/content/blog/the-great-filter.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ title = "A Confusion of Languages" +++ -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."