@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 11 months agoTIL about the "The Boring Billion", a time period from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and stalled biological evolution.en.wikipedia.orgmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down13
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the "The Boring Billion", a time period from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and stalled biological evolution.en.wikipedia.org@[email protected] to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 11 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-square@flossdailylink4•11 months agoGreat Filter - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter … that’s what the great filter is about. The reason this is good news is that it suggests that the great filter was whatever leap happened after that billion year stagnation, and not, say, immediately ahead of us.
minus-squareDarkagalinkfedilink6•11 months agoIt’s also possible that there are multiple filters. So this might be A filter and not THE filter.
Can you elaborate on why it’s great?
Great Filter - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
… that’s what the great filter is about. The reason this is good news is that it suggests that the great filter was whatever leap happened after that billion year stagnation, and not, say, immediately ahead of us.
It’s also possible that there are multiple filters. So this might be A filter and not THE filter.