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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
if you watch my short video i posted today about the size of the universe its almost impossible to reason there isnt however we are so far away that we will probably never know before the sun explodes
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My current theory is that there's loads of life out there and maybe some of it is even in contact with each other... but we're tucked away several million lightyears from any other intelligent life AND faster-than-light travel is physically impossible no matter how advanced we become (i.e. warp / wormhole travel isn't a real possibility).
Therefore, no matter how long human life persists, it's unrealistic that we'll EVER encounter other life, even though there are almost certainly
countless other planets out there with similar conditions to Earth / similar types of life living on them.
What MAY happen, if we don't wipe ourselves out, is advances in terraforming or even the creation of artificial "planets" and then colonisation of space will take place and, again if we manage not to wipe ourselves out, human life on each colony might start to diverge down slightly different evolutionary paths... and then in a few million years, there might be "aliens" in contact with each other, but actually all of them will be descended from humans. Or maybe other earth life. Maybe there'll be intelligent dog people or something
. Which might seem ridiculous but... humans are great apes, and a few million years ago, the idea of a great ape more intelligent than a chimpanzee would also have seemed ridiculous (if anyone was observing).
10-01-2019, 01:54 PM
Luckily us earthlings are just maniacs
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