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The Wandering Earth Hardcover – Oct. 26 2021

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

• Print length 464 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Tor Books
• Publication date Oct. 26 2021
• Dimensions 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
• ISBN-10 1250796830
• ISBN-13 978-1250796837
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“Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork.”― Publishers Weekly , starred review “The passion in Liu's writing becomes an unstoppable force. These are the stories that really leap off the page and stick with you long after you’re done.”―Tor.com “This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.”― Shelf Awareness on Supernova Era Praise for the Three-Body trilogy: “Wildly imaginative.”―President Barack Obama “ The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.”― The Wall Street Journal “A breakthrough book . . . A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.”―George R. R. Martin “Tackles politics, philosophy, and virtual reality in a story that moves at a thriller's pace.”― The Washington Post “Evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale.”― The New Yorker “Stunning, elegant . . . A science fiction epic of the most profound kind.”―NPR

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (Oct. 26 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250796830
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250796837
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 658 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
• #217 in Chinese Literature
• #1,260 in Science Fiction Anthologies
• #2,190 in High Tech Science Fiction (Books)

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Liu Cixin, born in June 1963, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. His representative work The Three-body Problem is the BEST STORY of 2015 Hugo Awards, the 3rd of 2015 Campbell Award finalists, and nominee of 2015 Nebulas Award.

His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.

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NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM. The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too , consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai... Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction . A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem , was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth , is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos. 'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN . 'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.

• Print length 464 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Head of Zeus
• Publication date 5 Oct. 2017
• Dimensions 19.9 x 3 x 13 cm
• ISBN-10 1784978515
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• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784978515
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784978518
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.9 x 3 x 13 cm
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Liu Cixin, born in June 1963, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. His representative work The Three-body Problem is the BEST STORY of 2015 Hugo Awards, the 3rd of 2015 Campbell Award finalists, and nominee of 2015 Nebulas Award.

His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.

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The Wandering Earth

From  New York Times  bestselling author Cixin Liu,  The Wandering Earth  is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.

These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

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From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, THE WANDERING EARTH is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale --- the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.

These 10 stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts and its futures. Cixin Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we ever could have imagined.

With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

• Publication Date: August 30, 2022
• Genres: Fiction , Science Fiction , Short Stories
• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books
• ISBN-10: 1250796849
• ISBN-13: 9781250796844

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The Wandering Earth

Cixin liu graphic novels #2, cixin liu, christophe bec, stefano raffaele, s. qiouyi lu.

• September 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781945863653
• Trim Size: 7in x 10in x 0in
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The second in a new series of graphic novels from Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin and Talos Press The life-bringing sun is on track to have a catastrophic helium flash within the next four hundred years, which would wipe the Earth from the universe entirely. To survive, humanity constructs massive engines on Earth that keep running nonstop, gradually taking Earth out of the Sun’s orbit. Braking, escaping, and hostile living conditions wear down humanity’s hope. People who believe that civilization has already been destroyed form a rebel faction, carrying out a ruthless execution of those who still believe that the Sun will undergo a helium flash. The second of sixteen new graphic novels from Liu Cixin and Talos Press,  The Wandering Earth  is an epic tale of the future that all science fiction fans will enjoy. 

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Born on 23rd June, 1963, in the city of Yangquan in the Shanxi province of the People’s Republic of China, Liu Cixin has quickly risen in prominence among the science fiction writers of China to achieve a rare position in the global club of popular science fiction writers. Born to humble roots, Liu was trained at the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric power, from where he was able to graduate in 1988, to begin working as a computer engineer for a local power plant.

Liu Cixin’s experience as a novelist began in 2002, when his first novel was published to widespread acclaim. Since then, Liu has gone on to publish several novels and short stories in the science fiction genre. His most famous work, The Three Body Problem, was published in 2007 and was extremely successful before being translated into english and published in 2014, helping Liu become the first asian writer to win the prestigious Hugo Best Novel of the Year award in 2015. Throughout his long and illustrious career, Liu has won a number of national and international awards for his written work, including the Chinese galaxy award on no less than nine occasions, a nebula award for best science fiction writer, a Hugo award for best novel, and the Xingyun award for best achievement in 2015.

Liu Cixin’s work reflects his personal take on the theory of ‘Cosmic Sociology’, based on the premise that there are many civilizations in the universe, each trying to survive and grow in a limited amount of space, thus leading to inevitable clashes between different cosmic civilizations. In face of such a situation, the only method of safety for civilizations with inferior technology is the hope that a technologically superior civilization does not become aware of their existence. It is on this cosmic scale, dealing with questions of humanity’s future in relation to its place in the universe, that most of Cixin’s work is placed.

The Three Body Problem –

The most highly acclaimed out of all of Liu Cixin’s novels, The Three Body Problem is a science fiction novel that is the first of a trilogy known as Remembrance of Earth’s Past. The title is a reference to the problem in orbital mechanics called the three body problem. First appearing as a serialized novel in 2006 in a science fiction magazine, it was later published as a full length novel in 2008, and quickly became one of the most popular science fiction novels in China. The novel has been adapted into a movie soon to be released in early 2017.

The novel deals with the inhabitants of a stellar world system known as Trisolaris, whose orbit is around three suns along with eleven other planets. The presence of the three suns makes the orbital pattern for the twelve planets extremely chaotic, leading to the other eleven planets being consumed by the suns. This leaves the people of Trisolaris in a state of great urgency to predict the orbital pattern of their planet in order to escape a similar demise. However, at long last the scientists on Trisolaris determine that there is no way to accurately predict the movement pattern of their planet, making it a certainty that Trisolaris will someday meet the same fate as the other twelve planets. Faced with such dire odds and the prospect of certain death in a highly uncertain future, the Trisolarans evolve into a totalitarian society whose sole aim is to migrate to other, more stable planets and resettle their civilization there.

The story of the Trisolarans connects to Earth through a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie. Suffering from a violent past filled with large scale oppression, Ye uses her knowledge of astrophysics to code information in the form of solar waves and send it into space, carrying a message concerning the cruelty of humans towards each other and a plea for help. The second such message is picked up by the Trisolarans, and they decide to make the planet Earth their latest conquest.

The Trisolarans find certain willing hosts among humans, eager to welcome their alien overlords. The Trisolarans plan of conquest is split into two pieces. The first step is to halt all forms of scientific progress and enlightenment on Earth, and them to descend in force on the planet, exterminate the human race and establish their own control. The rest of the novel deals with the affects of the Trisolarans plans on Earth and the uncovering of the truth by humans.

The Dark Forest –

The second novel in the trilogy moves the story forward as the Trisolarans are revealed to be on their way to Earth with a fleet of spaceships to win over the planet from the human race. The time taken to reach Earth is estimated to be 400 years, leading to a rush of military preparation on Earth to defend against the alien invaders. The problem grows more complex when it becomes clear that the Trisolarans are keeping a close surveillance on the human race, so that any attempt to discuss strategy is immediately reported. The rate of advancement in technology for the human race has also been severely curtailed by the Trisolarans.

This leaves strategic gambits the only defense for the human race. This takes the form of the ‘Wallfacer Project’, which employs savants with special abilities to form effective strategies and give them access to whatever resources they need to formulate effective plans of resistance. The biggest obstacle is to carry out the plans and strategies while avoiding the attention of the Trisolarans as they maintain a ceaseless vigil over all human forms of communication.

The team of wallfacers function under the authority of the UN, where, despite the need for secrecy, they are forced to undergo countless updation meetings as well as having their every move questioned. In the context of the new threat of invasion from a far superior foreign force, old political alliances dissolve and new ones take their place. However, in the larger scheme, human society continues to be divided along geographical, political and religious lines.

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The Wandering Earth Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Netflix

The Wandering Earth is a Chinese sci-fi movie adapted from Liu Cixin’s short story of the same title. It was released on February 5, 2019, and directed by Frant Gwo. In the film’s story, when the sun starts to fade, a brave group of astronauts goes on a journey to find a new planet where everyone can live.

Here’s how you can watch and stream The Wandering Earth via streaming services such as Netflix.

Is The Wandering Earth available to watch via streaming?

Yes, The Wandering Earth is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.

The movie is set in the distant future. A group of astronauts and rescue workers are trying to move Earth away from the Sun, which is getting bigger. They’re also trying to stop Earth from crashing into Jupiter.

The film stars Wu Jing as Liu Peiqiang, Qu Chuxiao as Liu Qi, Li Guangjie as Captain Wang Lei, and Ng Man-tat as Han Zi’ang.

Watch The Wandering Earth streaming via Netflix

The Wandering Earth is available to watch on Netflix.

Other than this, film users can stream various TV series and movies on the platform, such as 1922, Prey, Two, The Watcher, Peaky Blinders, and The Haunting of Hill House.

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Its Standard Plan provides the same but is completely ad-free while also allowing users to download content on two supported devices with an additional option to add one extra member who doesn’t live in the same household.

The Premium Plan provides the same as above, though for four supported devices at a time, with content displaying in Ultra HD. Users get to download content on up to six supported devices at a time and have the option to add up to two extra members who don’t live in the same household. Netflix spatial audio is also supported.

The Wandering Earth synopsis is as follows:

“When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.”

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The story is that it all started one day in 1950, when a group of prominent physicists— all veterans of the Manhattan Project—were walking to lunch at the Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. They were discussing the spate of recent UFO sightings that had been claimed in the area, and the conversation turned to the topic of extraterrestrial civilizations. Out of the blue, Enrico Fermi (1901–54), a man well known for his ability to see to the heart of a problem, asked a simple question: Where is everybody? In the years since then, scientists have come to realize that Fermi’s offhand question is, in fact, the deepest question we can ask about life in our galaxy. The fact that there is no evidence for the existence of extraterrestrials in spite of the calculations suggesting that they should exist is known as the Fermi paradox.

So why has his offhand question played such an important role in the debate about extraterrestrials? To understand this, we can go back to our old device of compressing the lifetime of the universe into a single year. In this scheme, the Sun and our solar system formed in the late summer (Labor Day is a convenient approximation), modern humans showed up a few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, and all of recorded history took place while the ball is descending in Times Square, with modern science appearing in the last second of that descent.

The point is this: if there really are other technological civilizations out there, it is extremely unlikely that they developed science after we did—after all, they had the whole year to discover the laws of nature. To understand what follows from this statement, let’s look at a possible future for the human race.

Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System

In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space.

We’ll start at Princeton University in the 1970s, where physicist Gerard O’Neill (1927–92) was teaching a seminar centered around an interesting question: is the surface of a planet really the best place for a technological civilization? The answer the class came up with was “no,” and from their deliberations came the design for a structure now called an O’Neill colony.

Imagine a hollow doughnut, a mile or more across, rotating slowly in space. In O’Neill’s vision, people live inside the doughnut, and the centrifugal force associated with its rotation substitutes for gravity. Using solar or nuclear power, possibly with ancillary doughnuts for raising crops, such a system could be self-sustaining, a true move of humanity away from our home planet. It is almost within our technological capabilities to build such a structure right now, if not within our budgets. In any case, we should expect that any extraterrestrial race that has come to our level of technical sophistication should also be able to build something like an O’Neill colony.

Let’s imagine how something like O’Neill colonies might play out in our future. Eventually, we can expect that people in colonies like this would leave the space around Earth and move to the truly prime real estate in the solar system, the asteroid belt, where ample material and solar power are available.

It’s the next step that has enormous implications for the Fermi paradox. After a few generations have spent their lives in something like an O’Neill colony, will it really matter to them if their colony is on the way to another star system rather than in the asteroid belt? As the best locations in our own system fill up, it is reasonable to suppose that future space colonists will follow the example of their forebears and “light out for the territories,” except that, in this case, that would mean moving to other solar systems. In essence, we suggest that they would turn their colonies into interstellar starships. How hard would that be?

Let’s make two extraordinarily conservative assumptions. Let’s assume that (1) there is no way to get around the speed-of-light barrier—no “warp drive”—and (2) no major technological advances will be made in the next couple of centuries. The immense distance between stars would require travel times of a century or more, which would mean that the starship would be multigenerational—you get on, your grandchildren get off. Several propulsion systems for such a trip have been proposed—for example, one in which the ship scoops up rarefied interstellar hydrogen to run its power and propulsion systems. The idea of such a multigenerational starship is already a staple of science fiction.

The point of this exercise in futurology is that once a civilization reaches our level of sophistication, it is only a matter of a few centuries before it can start colonizing other star systems. If we can imagine ourselves doing it, then there’s no reason extraterrestrials couldn’t do it as well. The important point for our discussion is that we are talking about a time span of only a few hundred years. In terms of our galactic year analogy, this amounts to only one second. Basically, as soon as the ball touches down in Times Square, Earth could be the center of an expanding wave of human colonization. No one would even have time to say, “Happy New Year.”

How long would it take that wave to engulf the entire galaxy? Most calculations give times on the order of 30 million years or so. And while this is an extremely long time on a human scale, it is only one day in our galactic year. So if extraterrestrial civilizations have been popping up throughout the galactic year, and if at least some of those civilizations are as scientifically adept as we are, there should have been multiple waves of colonization sweeping over the solar system.

So . . . where is everybody?

That, in essence, is a modern look at the question Fermi asked over a half century ago, one we still haven’t been able to answer. His point can be stated this way: we shouldn’t be looking for extraterrestrials out there, as we do in SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)—we should be looking for them right here. And if we ignore the silliness of UFOs and ancient astronauts, we can say that there is no evidence whatsoever for extraterrestrials being here now or in the past.

Where is everybody? Why the Great Silence?

William of Ockham was an English scholar who is famous for one throwaway line in an otherwise turgid theological treatise. Called Occam’s razor, it says, “Plurality must never be posited without necessity.” In essence, it tells us that when we have a question to answer, the simplest solution is the one we should choose. The concept shaves away complexity; hence the word razor .

There is no doubt that the simplest answer to the questions “Why the Great Silence? Why don’t we hear any SETI signals?” is that we don’t hear signals because no one is sending them. There are a number of other explanations that have been put forward, and we can look at them briefly before taking William of Ockham seriously. Basically, the explanations can be divided into three categories:

1. They really are out there, but they’re not interested in us.

2. They really are out there, but they’re protecting us.

3. They really are out there, and we’re going to get it unless we mend our ways.

An example of the first category would be a race of extraterrestrials living in a Dyson sphere, happy as clams with their star’s energy and supremely uninterested in anyone else. Another possibility would be extraterrestrials on a rogue planet who can’t imagine a planet near a star being inhabitable. An example of the second item in the list is seen in the Star Trek series, where spacefarers obey the Prime Directive, which forbids them from interfering with the development of other life forms. The last category is portrayed in the classic 1950s film The Day the Earth Stood Still , in which an extraterrestrial visitor warns that Earth will be destroyed unless we control our use of atomic weapons:

Klaatu barrada nikto!

All these schemes have two things in common. First, there is no evidence to support any of them, and, second, they are all somewhat improbable in a galaxy with thousands of different advanced civilizations. Some might indeed retreat to Dyson spheres or refuse to go near stars, but to suppose that all of them would is something of a stretch. Similar arguments can be made for the other explanations. 

One way to approach the question posed by the Great Silence is to think of each term in the Drake equation  as a gateway or valve on the way to an advanced technological civilization. If even one of those terms has a numerical value much less than we have assumed, the effect would be to greatly reduce our estimate of the number of extraterrestrials out there. In essence, that term would act as a kind of filter, blocking the orderly progression implied in the equation. To use a term introduced by economist Robin Hanson, our colleague at George Mason, somewhere in the chain of events in the Drake equation there might be a “Great Filter” that effectively blocks the development of civilizations that might be trying to communicate with us.

Some scientists have argued that the existence of periodic ice ages played an important role in producing the kind of social interactions needed to take humans beyond the hunter-gatherer stage. In one scenario, for example, the need to protect the nutritionally rich shellfish beds along the African coast—a dependable source of food—during an ice age is what led to both the kind of cooperativeness and the kind of aggressiveness that have characterized our species ever since. Again, if you accept this sort of argument, you are saying that the Great Filter is located at the point where intelligence progresses into advanced society. If this is true, there will be lots of planets with the equivalent of dinosaurs out there, but none (or very few) with radio telescopes.

Arguments that say, in effect, that there is something special about Earth that is unlikely to be duplicated elsewhere in the galaxy—go under the name of the Rare Earth Hypothesis. They are put forward most completely in a book titled Rare Earth , by geologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee. Ward and Brownlee’s central thrust is that we have been blindly accepting the Copernican principle—the idea that Earth is not special—and ignoring the fact that there are many unusual things about our home planet. In essence, they look at all the things that are unique about Earth and argue that if they are all necessary for an advanced civilization to develop, then we could well be the only such civilization in the galaxy. For example, if, besides an Earth-sized planet in the CHZ of its star, you need a star located a certain distance from the galactic center, a Jupiter farther out, plate tectonics, the right planetary tilt to produce ice ages, and a large moon to stabilize the planet’s axis of rotation and produce tidal pools (Darwin’s warm little pond), Earth might well be the only planet like that in the galaxy. The Rare Earth answer to the Fermi paradox is thus quite simple: there’s nobody here because there’s nobody there. We are indeed alone.

Those who don’t accept the Rare Earth Hypothesis assert that any specific event you want to talk about is extremely unlikely, and that simply reciting that fact proves nothing. Think, for example, of the chain of unlikely events that led to your reading these words. Your parents had to meet, you had to attend a certain school, learn to read, acquire an interest in science, and so on. There’s no point in harping on this improbability, though, because if you weren’t reading this book, you’d be doing something else equally improbable. In the same way, other types of improbable intelligences could have developed in the galaxy following their own improbable chain of events, and there could be an infinite number of those improbable paths. For these critics, all the Rare Earth Hypothesis proves is that there is at least one improbable path to an advanced civilization (our own); it says absolutely nothing about the possible existence of other paths.

The scenarios we have considered all have one thing in common: they all assume that the Great Filter is behind us, that by some combination of luck or providence, Homo sapiens has made it through all the filters and bottlenecks that stood in our way. But there is another, much more frightening possibility. What if none of these events in our past constitutes the Great Filter? What if the Great Filter is still in front of us?

To understand the importance of this question, let’s think for a moment about the nature of the evolutionary process. Natural selection is driven by one criterion and one criterion only: the need to get an organism’s genes into the next generation. Winners in the evolutionary game, in other words, are not determined by moral or ethical considerations. Consider the history of our own species as an example of this statement. The appearance of Homo sapiens in any region once we left Africa was accompanied by the disappearance of competing hominids (think Neanderthals and Denisovans) and just about every large animal (think woolly mammoths and giant tree sloths). We became the dominant life form on the planet by wiping out our competitors, either directly or indirectly. Given this history, we think it’s fair to say that Homo sapiens is not the sort of species you’d want to meet in a dark alley, and the same will be true of any other winner of the evolutionary game who became the dominant species on their planet.

The “Great Filter is in front of us” argument goes like this: despite the Rare Earth Hypothesis, there really doesn’t seem to be anything all that special about the way that life developed on Earth, and given the abundance of planets out there, there is no reason that complex life shouldn’t be quite common. On the other hand, from what we know about the process of evolution, we can expect the winners of the evolutionary game on other planets to be no more benevolent than Homo sapiens . In this case, the coming Great Filter is easy to see. Once an aggressive, warlike species discovers science, they are likely to turn their discoveries against one another and, in essence, wipe themselves out.

The picture of galactic history that comes from this argument is a disturbing one. From the very beginning, intelligent, technologically advanced societies have appeared only to disappear in a short time as they succumb to their own dark inner nature—a nature produced by the laws of natural selection. No one is out there, in other words, because they’ve all wiped themselves out long ago, before we started listening.

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Excerpt condensed for print from  Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System  © 2017 by Michaels Summers and James Trefil

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China launches a new crew to its space station, advancing toward lunar mission

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A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-18 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Thursday. Andy Wong/AP hide caption

A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-18 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Thursday.

JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China – China launched three astronauts into space on Thursday night, bound for the country's homemade space station where they will live and work for half a year.

The Shenzhou-18 launch is the latest in a series rotating taikonauts, as China calls its space explorers (the Chinese word for "space" is taikong ), through multi-month missions in orbit to conduct experiments and amass experience for eventual trips to the Moon and beyond.

The crewed missions are just one facet of an ambitious and fast-moving space program that international experts and officials worry could pose a threat to U.S. space superiority and military effectiveness on Earth.

NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, famed for U.S.-Soviet orbital handshake, has died at 93

Thursday's launch coincides with a visit to China by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who made stops in Shanghai and Beijing to advocate for a level playing field for U.S. businesses and press Beijing to stop supporting Russia's war effort against Ukraine.

From left, astronauts for China's Shenzhou-18 space mission Li Guangsu, Ye Guangfu and Li Cong wave during a departure ceremony before boarding a bus to take them to the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert in northwest China on Thursday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

From left, astronauts for China's Shenzhou-18 space mission Li Guangsu, Ye Guangfu and Li Cong wave during a departure ceremony before boarding a bus to take them to the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert in northwest China on Thursday.

At one minute before 9 p.m., Shenzhou-18's Long March 2F rocket lit up the night and tore skyward to cheers from onlookers at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in remote western China.

A day earlier, China unveiled the crew — commander Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu. All are former fighter pilots, all born in the 1980s.

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"I am thoroughly looking forward to the coming half-year of life in space. Embarking on this space expedition for the motherland is my greatest happiness," Li Guangsu told reporters the day before the flight.

The three taikonauts were not the only ones headed to the space station on Thursday. Several zebrafish were also slated to be part of the mission, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The crew will conduct more than 90 scientific experiments in orbit, including one that will try to establish a closed aquatic ecosystem with the minnows and a type of algae.

Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

"We hope that through this research we can understand the interaction between these plants and animals in space, so that in the future when we understand it we can establish a large-scale ecosystem with animals, plants and microorganisms ... and create a systematic loop and possibly a closed system so that people can live in space for long periods," said Zhang Wei, a professor of technology and engineering at the Center for Space Utilization at the Chinese Academy of Science.

The Shenzhou-18 crew will also add protective shielding to exposed pipes, wires and other systems on the outside of the space station, officials said. The previous crew discovered damage from space debris to a solar panel wire that CMSA says affected the power supply. They conducted space walks to fix it, but future damage from space debris is possible.

China's space program has come a long way in a relatively short period time, according to international experts. That has raised persistent concerns in the U.S., most recently from the commander of the U.S. Space Command, Gen. Stephen Whiting.

On Wednesday, Whiting told reporters that China had tripled its number of intelligence gathering satellites over the past six years, and he called the country's space advances "cause for concern."

Whiting said China's strides in space were helping it improve the effectiveness of its military on Earth. He also noted that China is developing a range of counter-space weapons — devices that can disable or disrupt other countries' space assets.

Indeed, China's space program is an outgrowth of the People's Liberation Army, with the crewed portion still directly under the military. Even many of the firms that comprise a growing commercial space sector have links to state-owned enterprises in the military industrial complex.

Still, some experts say calling competition between China and the United States a new space race is of debatable value.

"To me, it looks more like a very long endurance, no-end-in-sight, marathon. And the marathon we are running here in space is really against ourselves," says Svetla Ben-Itzhak, a space security expert at Johns Hopkins University.

She notes that while China has been making fast strides, the U.S. retains clear advantages in space — including operating close to 70% of all space assets, including satellites.

That leadership position, coupled with a growing dependence on space and a lack of transparency on the part of China, has fueled a security dilemma, she says.

U.S. law bans NASA from using government money to cooperate with China, and Beijing has been excluded from the International Space Station — part of the reason it developed its own space station.

China's endemic secrecy was apparent during a government-organized visit to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for a small group of journalists.

Foreign reporters were housed in a town three hours by bus from the space center, while Chinese journalists stayed onsite. Trip details and schedules were withheld until the last minute. And plainclothes guards at the launch center kept a close eye on reporters to prevent them from wandering more than a few yards away from approved stops — or, at one location, aiming cameras at a camouflaged truck.

Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, who went into space in 2003 aboard Shenzhou-5, says China would welcome more cooperation with the United States.

"China has always wanted to cooperate with the United States," he says. "In space exploration, and especially crewed space exploration, international cooperation is a major trend...[and] it's a common need of humanity."

Zhang Wei, the scientist, says China will keep plowing ahead regardless of worries about its program from abroad.

"That's not important. We just need to do our best. We don't really need to worry about whatever others think of us," he says.

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