"Where is everybody?" That famous phrase, uttered over lunch by eminent physicist Enrico Fermi, perfectly encapsulated what has since become known as the Fermi paradox: If life happened here on Earth ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore the Great Filter and humanity’s potential future.

The science-focused YouTube channel, Aperture, has put out a new video essay on the Fermi paradox and it is downright cinematic. The video’s also anxiety provoking, however, as it discusses some of ...

Bitcoin doesn't just "break all your models." Bitcoin breaks all cycles. This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine's "Moon Issue." To get a copy, visit our store. Energy money is the ...

In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

My feeling is that any species sufficiently advanced to attain interstellar travel would rub us out like a pesky rodent infestation, if they even recognized us as equals at all. Click to expand ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they — or, in the future, we — inevitably get wiped out by ultra-strong artificial intelligence, victims ...

This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine’s “Moon Issue.” To get a copy, visit our store. Energy money is the catalyst and tip of the spear for an intelligent sentient species’ transition ...