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The 11 pages that link to Great Filter, each with the reason it gives.

• AstrobiologyRelated: It offers possible explanations for the silence associated with the Fermi paradox.

• Fermi paradoxRelated: It locates a possible reason civilizations fail to become detectable.

• Carl SaganCompared with: The idea highlights evolutionary obstacles that complicate optimistic expectations about intelligent life.

• Drake equationCompared with: It offers an explanation for why several Drake factors might be extremely small.

• Search for extraterrestrial intelligenceRelated: It offers one possible explanation for why SETI has found no confirmed signal.

• Rare Earth hypothesisRelated: It frames the unresolved question of whether rarity arises before or after complex life.

• TechnosignatureRelated: The scarcity of detected technosignatures bears on where such a barrier might lie.

• Breakthrough ListenRelated: Null results leave open whether civilizations are scarce, short-lived, or difficult to detect.

• Existential riskRelated: Whether the hardest filter lies ahead bears on the likelihood of civilization-ending transitions.

• Extraterrestrial lifeRelated: It frames the apparent absence of detectable civilizations as a problem needing explanation.

• Extraterrestrial intelligenceRelated: It offers one explanation for why detectable civilizations may be scarce.