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Just thinking there's something else out there, probably monitoring us out in the vastness of space. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9bfb71e0.jpg

hard to believe they're all just full of empty rocks

Embrace it

There's more than just us to all this. When this world fails, life exists elsewhere, hopefully in a more successful and harmonious fashion. The human existence has become a failure to itself.

I dont know anymore my guy

what if earth restarted during the Archean period and life was everywhere at that time (not in earth but elsewhere) during a miracle chance at great filter letting us pass

but even the great filter doesnt decide when life ends?

How does it creep you out versus like... astonishing and amazing you?

I mean, I know I'm a big fuckin space nerd at heart and all, but it makes my mind boggle with pure childish amazement that we are currently controlling (or have the ability to control) something WE BUILT ON EARTH on the surface of Mars. That continually inspires me daily as a testament to the awesome power of the human spirit.

Then when I see these pictures from space? To think about all the tremendous possibilities out there? Both the potentially infinitesimally small chance that life happened on this planet to the almost certainty that it has happened in other places in the universe given how infinitely large it all is? It brings me such a sense of awe, wonder, and just the purest sense of beauty in everything.

KaZooo posted...

Embrace it

There's more than just us to all this. When this world fails, life exists elsewhere, hopefully in a more successful and harmonious fashion. The human existence has become a failure to itself.

Quite the opposite really. The fact that we built something, sent it to space and it's still operational is quite a feat (one that will be dwarfed by our descendants). There will forever be pieces of Earth and human engineering falling in space long after us. Kind of spectacular really.

We are alone in dis dark universe

Somewhere out in the vastness of space is a planet that supports life similar to our own. On this planet, a alien dude is scratching his nuts wondering if there is another planet out there with another alien (a.k.a. me) currently scratching his nuts.

I totally am alien bro.

It seems like there should be life out there, but if any of it ever evolved to something comparable to or better than humans then it seems we should be crawling in evidence of their existence. I don't mean UFO sightings explained away as swamp gas but signals coming at us and nobody can cover it all up or aliens landing in Timea Square and greeting us or something.

Either life is out there but it never got beyond basic forms, life did exist but has been long gone, it advanced but advanced civilizations all managed to destroy themselves before they got far beyond us, they're deliberately evading us, or our world is it in the universe. None of these are great.

viewmaster_pi posted...

hard to believe they're all just full of empty rocks

they're minerals!

Isnt it true that all those other galaxies are slowly drifting further away? And theyre already millions of light years away. So like humanity will never reach other galaxies /:

KaZooo posted...

Embrace it

There's more than just us to all this. When this world fails, life exists elsewhere, hopefully in a more successful and harmonious fashion. The human existence has become a failure to itself.

Nah, humans are still the GOAT. We just need to address the "1% fucking everything up for the rest of the 99%" problem.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

astonishing and amazing

This. I love this stuff. The universe is unimaginably huge. It's full of of awesome cool stuff, and imo there's far too much out there for us to be the only life.

Our little pebble in this ocean grew life, so can others. Even if we'll never see it.

Evolician posted...

Isnt it true that all those other galaxies are slowly drifting further away? And theyre already millions of light years away. So like humanity will never reach other galaxies /:

The closest galaxies are drifting closer due to gravity and will eventually merge; we don't have to go them, they are coming to us.

The further out galaxies are being spread away by the expansion of space. Since space expands faster than light that means these galaxies are impossible to reach from here, and eventually won't even be visible from here.

In the distant future, it'll look like there's only one galaxy in the entire universe. No others will be visible from where any individual person is at. They also won't have any way to figure out how the universe began; it'll look like it was just always there.

If they are monitoring earth at all they wont see us for a long time. It will take an alien of the far future looking this way to see us as we are now.

Of course there's intelligent life out there infinite Galaxies we most likely will never meet them maybe by design wonder if they are as awful to each other as humans are

It is amazing they look so small.