Is Something Killing All the Aliens?

Published: June 16, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'Is it possible that we never met any aliens because somebody killed them all? Or might it be that one day WE will kill them all?\\n\\nAliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says\\n\\n"What if," Berezin wrote in a new paper posted March 27 to the preprint journal arxiv.org,"the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?"\\n\\nSo maybe the aliens are actually out there and we just haven\\u2019t met them yet. And we may \\u201cmeet\\u201d them briefly before they wipe us out.\\n\\nOr maybe we will be the first to develop interstellar travel and WE will be the ones to wipe everybody out?\\n\\nOr what if the first (or an early) arrival on the interstellar scene decided to be the scourge of the scourges? We could protect friendly aliens but totally go nuts on those that can\\u2019t live and let live.\\n\\nMaybe the fact that we are nice but not TOO nice could work as an advantage not only for us but for everybody else in the galaxy.\\n\\nGiven sufficiently advanced technology, we might take a more Arthur C. Clarke approach. Isolate a species from the rest of the universe until they are ready to play nice.\\n\\nAnd THAT approach might be another answer to the Fermi paradox. Why haven\\u2019t we met aliens? We\\u2019re on probation. Or as we call it around here: we\\u2019re in time out.\\n\\nWT 448-762\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License |\\xa0creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'