In the vast silence of the cosmos, one unsettling theory lingers: What if we’re not alone, everyone else is hiding? The Dark Forest Hypothesis offers a chilling answer to the Fermi Paradox: intelligent civilizations may be out there, but they stay silent out of fear.
Astronomer David Kipping explores the risks of shouting into the void, the psychology of…
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