Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

berserker hypothesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables: berserk-er hy-poth-e-sis
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Inflected Forms

the berserker hypothesis (canonical)

Questions

What does berserker hypothesis mean?: 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.

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