it's terrifying how alone and ephemeral we truly are, that there are already places in our expanding universe that will never be reachable even via communicatio

it's terrifying how alone and ephemeral we truly are, that there are already places in our expanding universe that will never be reachable even via communication with any technology on any time scale (unless universe expansion reverses course). that any communication we may receive today will be from civilizations that have ceased to exist thousands to billions of years ago. and humans will likely never travel outside the solar system. consciousness is a hell of a drug