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| rivers 06/10/20 4:53:27 PM #56: | Zikten posted... One sobering thought I have sometimes had is what if we finally get out into the galaxy and we explore all over and everywhere we go we keep finding ruins of ancient long dead civilizations. And we realize the galaxy used to be teeming with life but we missed it and now we are alone. I think that woukd suck more than just finding nothing everIt would be a pretty cool time to be an archaeologist, or a lover of ancient languages and literature. There was an episode of Star Trek where they beamed down to a planet that was about to be destroyed and found that all its inhabitants had escaped into different times. Perhaps that's what some of those ruined societies would have done: gone into virtual reality, you know, and lost any impetus to reproduce, or developed femtotechnological emulations of themselves, invisible to the eye, but living quadrillions of rich virtual lives in an environment that only looks dead. --- -4 horsemen 4 lyfe- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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