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Man, wouldn't it suck if it turned out the only place in that vastness that supported sentient life was Earth and we fucked it up?

• de6u99er 4y ago
  Definitely. But it won't matter.
• layer8 4y ago
  It wouldn’t, because then there wouldn’t be anyone who it would suck for.
  • ncmncm 4y ago
    It could suck plenty for our descendants, while any remained.
    • layer8 4y ago
      Well, life also sucked plenty for our ancestors (including the dinosaurs being hit by an asteroid and whatnot), so from a big-picture perspective that isn’t a very convincing objection. I guess you could construct scenarios where we fuck it up in a way that causes more suckage for sentient beings in the future then there was ever in the past, but that’d be moving goalposts.
      • ncmncm 4y ago
        Chicxulub was a minor hiccup as disasters go. Wholesale ecocide, down to the mantle, is on the table. It is wholly possible that life was well on its way before the strike that produced the moon re-melted the whole planet down to constituent elements.
  • zw123456 4y ago
    It would be sucking in a metaphorical vacuum. Ugh. Apologies :)