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If they exist, they're probably currently placing bets whether we will manage to destroy ourselves (or at least set our civilization back by centuries) with our
by rob74 6mo ago
If they exist, they're probably currently placing bets whether we will manage to destroy ourselves (or at least set our civilization back by centuries) with our nuclear weapons, our climate change or our social media...
- Tade0 6mo agoDepends how they're listening I think. There was a time not long ago when reportedly looking at the emails being exchanged around the world one would think the most pressing matter, discussed at length, was how to "enlarge your penis".
- FarmerPotato 6mo agoThink if the metazoans had written down their reproductive anxieties.
- lproven 6mo agoWe are metazoans? Well, I can't be sure about you, but I am and all my friends too.
- FarmerPotato 6mo agoRight. I had in mind an article I read about the "ur-metazoan" I propose the concept "Linnaeus-Years" to measure how outdated my taxonomical vocabulary is.
- Izkata 6mo agoI like the idea we live inside the Veil of Madness (A sort of galactic bermuda triangle that drives inhabitants insane, so all spacefaring civilizations stay away). https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/8vbfgk/the_veil_of_madness_part_one/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/8vbfgk/the_veil_of_mad...
- lproven 6mo agoTBH Vernor Vinge did it a _lot_ better.