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@ASmallFiction had a beautiful, succinct take on this recently: "Are we alone in the universe?" she asked. "Yes," said the Oracle. "So there's no other life
by piquadrat 9y ago
@ASmallFiction had a beautiful, succinct take on this recently:
"Are we alone in the universe?" she asked.
"Yes," said the Oracle.
"So there's no other life out there?"
"There is. They're alone too."
https://twitter.com/ASmallFiction/status/946608733982822401 https://twitter.com/ASmallFiction/status/946608733982822401
- zeristor 9y agoA nice way to think about it.
- cs1717p 9y agoWhile, of course, it is technically possible, it seems very reasonable to infer that we may be in a small window in which we haven't connected to other intelligent life. In just 100 years we have gone from being barely able to fly at all, to being close to becoming a multiplanetary lifeform. The evidence becomes more and more every day that life is not a one in a trillion miracle but a natural product of certain environments. To assume we will never have contact with other lifeforms seems like a huge jump.
- dghughes 9y agoI like that it makes sense. I'd say there certainly is life out in the Universse and it's quite possible there is intelligent life. But the distances are so large that we will never meet any other intelligent life before our own civilization vanishes.