Don't get me wrong... I was tongue in cheek joking. But you can't get too worked up because this is how it is. If it makes you feel better, probably the same

Don't get me wrong... I was tongue in cheek joking. But you can't get too worked up because this is how it is. If it makes you feel better, probably the same thing happens on most planets that develop "intelligent" life: Life takes a very long time to develop & it develops through competition & evolution. During this time, natural stores of energy build up -- it is nature's method of keeping a balance - without it there would be no life. Then finally the "intelligent" life pops out. They discover the stores of energy under the ground. They start burning it -- thinking there is no consequence, and they wind up undoing millions of years of careful balancing. What happens next, we don't know. Probably nothing good. Perhaps this is why when we peer into the sky, we do not hear any signs of life. Perhaps these bursts of intelligent life are incredibly short blips.