Mystery AtlasZoo Hypothesis
The conjecture that extraterrestrial civilisations exist and deliberately avoid contact with Earth; unfalsifiable as usually stated and treated as a speculative resolution of the Fermi paradox.
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Theories & Explanations
Zoo Hypothesis is frequently compared to Great Filter — Both are commonly discussed as competing candidate explanations for the Fermi paradox's silence.
Zoo Hypothesis is frequently compared to Rare Earth Hypothesis — Both are commonly discussed side by side as candidate explanations for the Fermi paradox, one sociological and one astrophysical.
Science & Technology
- Fermi Paradoxposed 1950
Zoo Hypothesis attempts to explain Fermi Paradox — Unfalsifiable as usually stated; classed as speculation rather than a testable hypothesis.