I wouldn't call searching for 100 years out of 13.7 billion unsuccessful. We barely started looking...

>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.

Click bait articles will be click bait.

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?

Lmao that's like saying you looked everywhere for the needle when you aren't in the same country as the haystack

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?

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.

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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.

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.

To be fair, that would be pretty based.

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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).

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In fairness, there have been very, very few attempts to actually move beyond this.

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.

The fact there have been very few attempts is only further reason to believe it's unlikely we ever will.

In a pessimistic view of survival, I have no doubt that some people will have the resources to pull strings that ensure their survival.

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

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The Soviets wanted to colonize the solar system.

"Communism + Capitalism are two sides of the same coin". - Gary Snyder.

"Under capitalism, man exploits man, but under socialism the reverse is true" -- I forget who.

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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.

All OP does is repost articles from this clickbait trash website. 😑