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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Honestly, that makes it feel even more scary.

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Well, at least it answers the Fermi paradox.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What is that?

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Fermi paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Is search hard?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

i'd think, even if humans wipe themselves out, there still should be some many trillions of intelligent life forms out in space, that at least a few would end up smart enough not to kill themselves and would want to explore the universe

[–]sproketboy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

should be some many trillions of intelligent life forms out in space

Information Theory is a branch of mathematics. Those guys would disagree - their calcs seem to indicate super rarity. There's a fair chance that we're all there is. https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2014/09/information-theory-chance-and-natural.html

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that makes a bit more sense to me, they're saying life is super rare and maybe earth is the only planet in the universe to have it, or it is super rare in the universe where we'd likely never see any life and especially not then intelligent life which must be even more rare. That is different than saying intelligent life is just likely to wipe itself out.