English Explanatory Dictionary

berserker hypothesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.

Word forms

berserker hypothesis the berserker hypothesis
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