Why don’t we see aliens, even in a universe this big? In this episode of Entropy Rising, we break down the Great Filters and how they help explain the Fermi Paradox. The idea is simple but unsettling. Somewhere between dead matter and galaxy spanning civilizations, most life gets stopped. We walk through the full chain. From the origin of life, to complex cells, multicellular organisms, intelligence, and finally technological civilizations that should be detectable. Some filters may be behind...