David Kipping
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Munitions, all this kind of stuff.
It pushes us, it drives us to innovate, to get one over our neighbors.
And maybe that is the universal story of the universe, is a double-edged sword.
And that's the solution to the Great Filter.
The silver lining of this would be, well, not for us necessarily, but the silver lining would be if other civilizations do this, there's kind of like this supernova effect in astronomy, and it's true for planets as well, that the easiest stars to discover are the supernovae, right?
Because they just shine so freaking bright.
They can outshine an entire galaxy, right?
Because they're going nuts.
It only lasts for maybe a few months or so, but the star is outshining an entire freaking galaxy during that time.
It is like a nuclear war going on inside that star.
And similarly, the first planets we found, the hot Jupiters, are freaks.
They are not normal things.
They're like the loud Lindsay Lohan in the room screaming at us.
There's no way you can miss them.
They're obnoxious planets.
You can't not detect them.