Dark forest hypothesis
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The dark forest hypothesis is the idea that extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in abundance across the universe, but remain silent and hidden out of fear that revealing themselves would lead to
Black Forest pictured in darkness, the concept from which the novel took its name
The Dark Forest
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The Dark Forest is a 2008 science fiction novel by Liu Cixin. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in the Remembrance of Earth's Past. The English version, translate
Dark forest hypothesis
…the apparently high probability of extraterrestrial life with the lack of evidence for it. The hypothesis derives its name from Liu Cixin's 2008 novel The Dark Forest although similar concepts predate the work. There is currently no known reliable or reproducible evidence that extraterrestrial life forms have visited…
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