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>>6933246
Do you even Sagan, bro?

Life is the most interesting thing happening in the universe and us humans are currently the most interesting part of life because we have revolutionized evolution by evolving memetically instead of genetically. Furthermore, we are the ones that decide whether or not Earth life survives for 1 billion years before being steamed to death by the Sun evaporating the oceans or if it survives for trillions of years due to us spreading life across the stars.

The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us. Necessity will have changed us. We’re… an adaptable species.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more confident, farseeing, capable, and prudent.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

>>4949537