Submitted by That_Teach_9224 t3_ywsj1u in space
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YourFatherUnfiltered t1_iwl3r3w wrote
Click bait articles will be click bait.
idiggory t1_iwli3g7 wrote
New global law: you can only post a fearmongering headline if you accept being publicly punched in the nose first, with video posted within the article.
Engineering_Flimsy t1_iwl8j8c wrote
Excellent point. It's an understandable mistake that we humans so often make, the tendency to use our own tiny lifespan as a benchmark. And even now, at the relatively advanced age of 54 years, I still routinely fall victim to this fallacy. And if I were to live another thousand years, I'd surely still be prone to this perspective.
wwarnout t1_iwlbkum wrote
Or, another way to look at it - we have not (yet) found life on the handful of planets we've examined, out of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. That's like examining a few grains of sand, and drawing conclusions about all the sand on Earth (although those grains only account for a small fraction of the number of planets).
yeatruestory t1_iwl4dp9 wrote
Lmao that's like saying you looked everywhere for the needle when you aren't in the same country as the haystack
Oriana_xx t1_iwlvzw3 wrote
its like trying to find a blue sand particle in a sun sized mass of sand, we barely have looked through a handful of sand
[deleted] t1_iwoo3za wrote
This is the best analogy I've heard. We've only been able to meaningfully look for less than a hundred years, our capabilities for looking are very limited, we haven't even looked everywhere we can look, and this is all assuming that our technology can even detect it. It's even possible that it exists under our noses, but is undetectable to us for the time being (like underneath ice sheets on Europa, or something like that).
Anyone saying the search for life is "over" is painfully unaware that the search for life is just getting started assuming humanity makes it through the next century.
BillHicksScream t1_iwl3kol wrote
>However, if humanity were to harness all of Earth’s energy and become a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale,
You cant "become" something that does not exist yet. Dreaming doesnt count as...anything. There's no such thing as a "Type 1 Civilisation", which is a really fucked, environmental nightmare to begin with.
SteveBennett7g t1_iwl46kh wrote
Right? That whole Kardashev system has always struck me as a bizarre overgrowth of capitalist, imperialist fantasies. A civilization powerful enough to dominate space like a plague would be wise enough not to want to. What are we, the Borg?
Hot_Objective_5686 t1_iwl8yxa wrote
To be fair, that would be pretty based.
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BillHicksScream t1_iwm22x7 wrote
The Soviets wanted to colonize the solar system.
"Communism + Capitalism are two sides of the same coin". - Gary Snyder.
SteveBennett7g t1_iwmw43t wrote
"Under capitalism, man exploits man, but under socialism the reverse is true" -- I forget who.
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Hot_Objective_5686 t1_iwl8xbx wrote
There’s no evidence that life even exists outside of our planet to begin with, much less intelligent life. The modern obsession with finding extraterrestrials is just religious eschatology masquerading as science.
West-Significance233 t1_iwl5i96 wrote
It’s too early here on the east coast of the US. Can I have my coffee first before the dread sets in for the day?
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CathodeRaySamurai t1_iwpoa9f wrote
All OP does is repost articles from this clickbait trash website. 😑
cabot-rose t1_iwl5zck wrote
End of humanity is inevitable because of the economic calculation problem. People cannot rationally organize an economy, so we have to rely on chaotic market forces to do it for us, which destroys the environment and wastes resources. Any attempt to move beyond this has been a failure. We just have to accept that humans will likely never leave even our own planetary system.
idiggory t1_iwlhxtd wrote
In fairness, there have been very, very few attempts to actually move beyond this.
cabot-rose t1_iwllq45 wrote
The fact there have been very few attempts is only further reason to believe it's unlikely we ever will.
Soapspear t1_iwlomfr wrote
In a pessimistic view of survival, I have no doubt that some people will have the resources to pull strings that ensure their survival.
s1ngular1ty2 t1_iwl3eer wrote
I wouldn't call searching for 100 years out of 13.7 billion unsuccessful. We barely started looking...