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My fantasy is that at some point we’ll have a sufficiently powerful telescope to cause a galactic “Van Leeuwenhoek moment” where, just like that discoverer of m
by adriand 1y ago
My fantasy is that at some point we’ll have a sufficiently powerful telescope to cause a galactic “Van Leeuwenhoek moment” where, just like that discoverer of microbes, we will suddenly see the galaxy swarming with spacecraft.
- sneak 1y agoAssume for a moment that happens. Can you possibly imagine the chaos and turmoil that causes on Earth?
- unfunco 1y agoNo? I genuinely think most of the world will have moved on and will be caring about something else within a day, the world will be about as chaotic and tumultuous as it was shortly after the discovery of microbes.
- booleandilemma 1y agoMicrobes weren't discovered everywhere all at once though. I think if the entire planet found out (through modern media) people would go ballistic.