Everybody wants to look for intelligent life out in space... · 1:45am Feb 8th, 2020
...but if you ask me, we should be trying to make contact with it here on Earth.
You're a lot stronger than you think you are. Trust me.
...but if you ask me, we should be trying to make contact with it here on Earth.
Yes, yes indeed.
I told you sentient animals have free will.
To me: the most credible argument against there being intelligent life in space is that none of it has contacted us yet.
5199224
Wait...what if it turns out that we're actually the most technologically advanced species in the galaxy, and everyone else is still in the stone age?!
All kidding aside, I do hold out hope that there's somebody out there.
5199229
Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally valid theories...and both equally terrifying.
I'm probably quoting someone there, but I can't remember who said it first
If we're the ones at the top of the tech climb...actually that's very possible. If we can imagine other species as more advanced than by the same logic we should also consider that other species are less advanced.
5199235
That'd be Arthur C. Clarke who said that.
And honestly, I find the idea of a universe where we're alone to be much more frightening. It almost becomes a phobia when I really begin to contemplate it. Or maybe it's just because I've been self-reared on Sci-Fi all my life...
5199238
Thank you for that.
The idea of us being alone terrifies me more because it means that if we expire before expanding out to the stars: the Universe becomes devoid of ascended life.
The near infinite cosmos remains beautiful, but now in the sense that a tombstone is still art.
To simplify: I honestly feel that we have an obligation to spread out.
Same here.
5199251
Months late, but I completely agree.