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Divergent Files

Every Civilization May Be Destined to Destroy Itself

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There may come a moment every civilization reaches... The moment it becomes powerful enough to destroy itself.

In this episode, we explore one of the most unsettling ideas in modern science: what if the reason we don't see advanced alien civilizations isn't because they never existed... but because none of them survived?

Using the Kardashev Scale as a starting point, we examine how…