argv minus one on Nostr: Some people find comfort and assurance in the thought that humans are the only ...
Some people find comfort and assurance in the thought that humans are the only intelligent and technologically capable creatures in the universe.
Me? I find that thought cold, lonely, and frightening.
Why? Because the #universe is far too vast, and our place in it far too unremarkable, for it to *not* be full of other intelligent life.
If I were to blast off in a starship and find nothing but desolate rocks out there, I'd assume something terrible must have happened to all the others.
Me? I find that thought cold, lonely, and frightening.
Why? Because the #universe is far too vast, and our place in it far too unremarkable, for it to *not* be full of other intelligent life.
If I were to blast off in a starship and find nothing but desolate rocks out there, I'd assume something terrible must have happened to all the others.