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Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think we can find solace in the idea that space is so unimaginably gigantic that the distance between us and anything else like us is way too vast for any vehicle to traverse in any "reasonable" time.

I personally think it's practically impossible for there to not be something else intelligent out there, I just don't think they're even remotely close enough to ever even detect us or us detect them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, the universe is also so old as to allow quite a bit of it to have reached us by now even limited to "unreasonable" timeframes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But also so old that it could have reached us before humans ever evolved.