Originally Posted by corvette

Watching a few science programs, notably carl sagan and stephen hawking, both seemed to think it was likely that once life evolves to a certain technological point, it gets its hands on too much power (ie atomic bombs) and eradicates itself)

Thats once of the explanations for the fermi paradox, which basically asks if there is such a high probability of life out there in the universe, why there isn't any found evidence.

i know there are some science buffs on here, what are your thoughts on that?