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what if we are just some primitive form of rock compared to the real life in the universe and they don’t give a fuck about us at all?

BurningFrog 6y ago
Then we have to defeat them!
- wruza 6y ago
  First they ignore you, then they 0x000000b7a831...c0 at you, then they 0x00000000f021...72 you, then you 0x000000000000...6b.
raducu 6y ago
There's got to be limits to biological and technological evolution. After all, it took ~billions of years for life to evolve on Earth and we're not immensely different than a monkey or dog. Also, we have very few genes compared to all other animals, we're like a 7zip of genetic information, each gene coding multiple proteins, a spaghetti dna code that's very good at what it does, but surely it limits evolution. If there is anything at all to evolve at, intelligence/emotional wise. What would a human or alien species with an iq of 1000 be able to achieve vs what we can achieve in the exact same Universe?
- adrian_b 6y ago
  It is very difficult for us to imagine which would be the abilities of a "more intelligent" alien species. On the other hand, it is very easy to imagine an alien species that would have the same intelligence as humans, except that its thinking speed would be several orders of magnitude higher, because it would not be limited by the slow velocities of ions in liquids, like in the animal nervous systems. The interactions between us and such aliens could be like the interactions between a sea star and us, even if they would not have a higher IQ.
- wruza 6y ago
  it took ~billions of years for life to evolve on Earth ~80% of time waiting for Oxygen Catastrophe, which was random (but was result of evolution, nonetheless). It wasn’t like start, billions of years, end. Organisms that we call non-bacteria non-algae are less than a billion years old, roughly.
- Koshkin 6y ago
  > it took ~billions of years For life to appear, about 1.
mensetmanusman 6y ago
They don’t know what they are missing, look at all the fun we have.

BurningFrog 6y ago

Then we have to defeat them!

wruza 6y ago
First they ignore you, then they 0x000000b7a831...c0 at you, then they 0x00000000f021...72 you, then you 0x000000000000...6b.

raducu 6y ago

There's got to be limits to biological and technological evolution. After all, it took ~billions of years for life to evolve on Earth and we're not immensely different than a monkey or dog. Also, we have very few genes compared to all other animals, we're like a 7zip of genetic information, each gene coding multiple proteins, a spaghetti dna code that's very good at what it does, but surely it limits evolution. If there is anything at all to evolve at, intelligence/emotional wise. What would a human or alien species with an iq of 1000 be able to achieve vs what we can achieve in the exact same Universe?

adrian_b 6y ago
It is very difficult for us to imagine which would be the abilities of a "more intelligent" alien species. On the other hand, it is very easy to imagine an alien species that would have the same intelligence as humans, except that its thinking speed would be several orders of magnitude higher, because it would not be limited by the slow velocities of ions in liquids, like in the animal nervous systems. The interactions between us and such aliens could be like the interactions between a sea star and us, even if they would not have a higher IQ.
wruza 6y ago
it took ~billions of years for life to evolve on Earth ~80% of time waiting for Oxygen Catastrophe, which was random (but was result of evolution, nonetheless). It wasn’t like start, billions of years, end. Organisms that we call non-bacteria non-algae are less than a billion years old, roughly.
Koshkin 6y ago
> it took ~billions of years For life to appear, about 1.

mensetmanusman 6y ago

They don’t know what they are missing, look at all the fun we have.