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X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds

X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds - NASA

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What if the planet used to have intelligent life but they blew themselves up accidentally?
- It would be interesting if the answer to the Fermi paradox was that every advanced lifeform accidentally blows themselves up.
  
  That's the Great Filter. Basically, no intelligent life can survive past a certain point because they end up offing themselves. Pretty much what we're about to do ourselves.