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Imagine if we are the only life in the universe. A million years from now we will have seeded life across multiple galaxies if we’re still around. What a crazy
by dyauspitr 2y ago
Imagine if we are the only life in the universe. A million years from now we will have seeded life across multiple galaxies if we’re still around. What a crazy life that would be.
- cgriswald 2y agoIf we left today, instantaneously at the speed of light, it would still be another 1.5 million years before we arrived at the nearest galaxy.
- knowitnone 2y agoaccording to relativity, if we could travel at the speed of light, we would arrive instantaneously. you're thinking about it from the observer point of view.
- dgrin91 2y agoOur nearest galaxy is only ~25k light years away (Canis Major)
- dyauspitr 2y agoYeah but the people traveling would barely have aged.
- postalrat 2y agoProbably already happened.
- OutOfHere 2y agoThe article is not about life, but about intelligent life. It says so right in the title. I do not consider humans to be particularly intelligent, as they can't even come together to address global threats like climate change that could mean the difference between a universe with intelligent life versus a universe that's barren. To address the risk, we first have to acknowledge this universal risk.