Welcome back to season 2 of Fun2Speculate! In this episode, Arend Richard (@arendrichard) and Producer Vlad (@vladriker) speculate on The Great Filter. A theory formulated by a man named Robin Hanson in the 1990s to possibly explain the Fermi Paradox (lack of evidence for extraterrestrial life in the face of a universe that should be, by the numbers, bursting with it).