Dr. Jonathan Jiang of Jet Propulsion Lap (JPL) co-wrote a paper with Philip E. Rosen and Kristen A. Fahy about a model using our current technological progress which projects when humanity will travel to the stars. Here is a link to their paper. The paper is titled Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World, and it can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf

Listen to these short episodes that make up this series:

• 244 JPL Scientist talks of Surviving the Great Filter
• 245 How Expanding Off-World Creates Hope for our Youth
• 246 How Moore’s Law Projects when Humanity will be Interstellar
• 247 Saving Humanity by Overcoming Great Filters
• 248 Avoiding the “Great Filter”—enough Wisdom to protect us from our Knowledge

If you enjoyed listening to this series, you’ll enjoy this other series with Dr. Jonathan Jiang about the location of intelligent life in the Milky Way Galaxy.