Science News: You are probably all familiar with sci-fi movies and TV series in which an alien invading race invades the Earth, causing unthinkable massacres. Nevertheless, against the backdrop of such fears, the Russian researcher suggested an alternative view of events. In his opinion, people, carrying out an uncontrolled expansion into Space, will be the very reason that will bring genocide to the Galaxy unseen before.
Without exception, all astronomers and astrophysicists know the so-called Fermi paradox, the essence of which is as follows.
Our Galaxy, not to mention the rest of the Universe, is many billions of years, during which life on planets similar to the Earth (at least) had to appear, evolve and create a technological civilization this or that life. And physicist Enrico Fermi once asked the question: if there are a great many aliens around, then where are they ?!
Russian theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin, who works for NASA, tried to answer this question in a scientific article, which he posted on the website of the journal arxiv.org. According to Berezin, the only reason why we do not observe ships of any aliens (UFOs do not count:)) is that the technology of interstellar travel and even interstellar communication is extremely complex, so no one in this Galaxy has mastered it yet.
It is possible, of course, that such a technology appeared in other Galaxies, but intergalactic distances compared to interstellar distances are simply nightmarish and without super-technologies that allow these distances to be covered, galaxies turn into star islands cut off from the rest of the world.
In view of these considerations, responding to the Fermi paradox, Alexander Berezin suggests that at the moment people are the most technologically advanced civilization. More advanced than people in the Galaxy simply do not exist yet, so we do not observe them.
In the future, the situation, as suggested by Berezin, will develop according to the following scenario.
People who have achieved a certain technological progress, or even a form of life that has replaced them, for example robots, will be the first to enter distant space, having the opportunity to travel from star to star. And the first thing this civilization will start to do will be the extermination of competitors, which has already been observed more than once in world history on a planetary scale.
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On Earth, people do exactly this: they systematically destroy each other and other species that divide the planet. Now imagine that people start doing the same thing, but only on an interstellar scale!
In the course of events, there is a scenario that is more optimistic for life in the Galaxy - such as total genocide of all people and their replacement by another form of life, most likely cybernetic. In this case, extremely intelligent cybernetic beings will come out into the vastness of the Galaxy, who will not have the tendency inherent in Homo Sapiens to arrange their usual massacre when they appear.
The robots will most likely be different, devoid of the flaws of the aggressive species that spawned them and exterminated them. However, with what eyes will these cybernetic organisms look at new life forms, at screeching creatures running through the forest?
“I am not suggesting that a highly developed cybernetic civilization would deliberately destroy other forms of life,” Berezin writes. "Most likely, they simply will not notice these new forms of life - just like a construction team building a skyscraper does not notice an anthill."
“Of course, I strongly hope that I am wrong,” Berezin says at the end of the article. "But the only way to find out the correct answer is to continue studying the Universe and look for traces of any life there."
