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Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman
Sounds like a good sci-fi horror novel
But with 200+ billion galaxies I think the opposite, we'll find life everywhere, and despite what our mommies told us, we are not unique or special but actually pretty ordinary.
And why no great space armadas flying around, all of us are pretty planet bound most of us can't exist outside our native planet conditions. And its slooooow to travel trough space.
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Reading the scenario imagined by Cixin Liu might make you believe less optimistic and more cautiously. Who said that life out there cares for us? Maybe it would prefer to see us as rivals or risks, and simply wipes us out, casually, like we snip away an ant.
I know all the probability arguments, and brought them myself often, years ago. But sober fact is that we still have not a single hint for life existing anywhere, not to mention intelligent, complex life. We only have our ideas, theories, imaginations.
And if there is intelligent life, it necessarily is more alien to us than any lifeform here on earth. We must want to take the implication from this simple truth much more into account before formulating expectations about how it would be like - expectations that are based on our human experiences and here on Earth.
Space is no hospitable place, its a dead, empty cold void, not to mention the outlook for its future based on some of our more "pessimistic" cosmological theories. No comfort in them at all.
We know nothing for sure. All we do is fantasizing so far. We take the earthly soap opera and project it into space.
We should be much more cautious and stay silent and put instead of wanting to make all cosmos aware of our existence and where we are. I think we are stupidly optimistic, as if we ask for getting exterminated. Better be cautious than sorry. After all, even on Earth "life" still means "
fight for survival".