Ooh. This crosses over with a fun article published in a NASA publication—
Cosmos and Culture, chapter 7: Dangerous Memes by Susan Blackmore.
Ms. Blackmore speculates about what we will find should we venture out into the cosmos. She constructs her speculations around a theory of memetics that a dangerous meme could end our civilization and leave only bones for space explorers to find.
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Ooh. This crosses over with a fun article published in a NASA publication—
Cosmos and Culture, chapter 7: Dangerous Memes by Susan Blackmore.
Ms. Blackmore speculates about what we will find should we venture out into the cosmos. She constructs her speculations around a theory of memetics that a dangerous meme could end our civilization and leave only bones for space explorers to find.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/607104main_CosmosCulture-ebook.pdf