berserker hypothesis

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Proper noun

the berserker hypothesis

  1. (exobiology) The proposition that humanity has not detected intelligent alien life because emerging civilizations are systematically destroyed by self-replicating, lethal von Neumann probes launched by a prior advanced species.

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