I love this. Might work better as a short story with a long reveal. But I don't know, I am not an author. The endless cycle philosophical trope plays well for

I love this. Might work better as a short story with a long reveal. But I don't know, I am not an author. The endless cycle philosophical trope plays well for a sense of continuance without needing a god and in way, can be seen as uplifting, that if we can get woke enough on this pass, we might push through whatever barrier that civilizations face. The same meta idea could also be, that the Wow signal or better yet, some semi rare, but now not rare because we have the right sensors, that it actually turns out to be the whimper of a dying civilization and that heavens are actually full of civs expiring. Maybe it isn't that life is rare, but that civilizations that can make it past the Drake equation. Have you patented it? https://www.theregister.com/2005/11/04/movie_plotline_patent/ https://www.theregister.com/2005/11/04/movie_plotline_patent...