thumb|right|200px|Gamma-ray bursts might have regulated the advent of intelligent life Neocatastrophism is the hypothesis that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts have acted as a galactic regulation mechanism in the Milky Way upon the emergence of complex life in its habitable zone. It is one of several proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox since it provides a mechanism which would have delayed the advent of intelligent beings in local galaxies near Earth.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).