/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5504968]

What if we are the only beings in the universe?

What if we are truly alone?

[SAGE No.5504969]

SAGE

[Anonymous No.5504970]

>us
>beings

[Anonymous No.5504972]

REAL HUMAN BEING

[Anonymous No.5504986]

>>5504968
Then we have all those delicious resources to ourselves.

[Anonymous No.5504996]

We sow the seeds of life on all the worlds we can find across the galaxy, and plant religious evidence of deities etc. on those planets, as well as various things to help civilizations quickly grow to power. Then weight a few billion years for the holy galactic wars to begin, which we can then retire to our extra-dimensional lounge to watch in comfort.

[Anonymous No.5505001]

It hurts, doesn't it alienfags, to know we're alone?

[Anonymous No.5505002]

>>5504968
Then we celebrate because guess what - all those awesome sci-fi stories where some civilization stumbles upon the ancient ruins of some technologically superior precursor race? THAT'S FUCKING US BABY!

A million years from now alien archaeologists will be flocking to Sol to study the ruins of "Earth" - capital of the Great and Bountiful Human Empire. The First Race - the race that tamed the seas, conquered the skies, and sailed amongst the stars when the other races of the galaxy were nothing but microbes or simple animals.

If we're the only one's out there at the moment, we've got a lot to live up to.

[Anonymous No.5505010]

>>5504972
& A REAL HERO

[Anonymous No.5505017]

>FTL travel will never be possible
>The tyranny of distance and massive times involved is simply far too overwhelming to make any sort of inter-system space travel feasible
>Humans will always be restricted to the Sol system
>we will never make first contact
>we will never know what is truly out there

[Anonymous No.5505020]

>>5505017
Thinking like that all the time doesn't do you any justice.

[Anonymous No.5505026]

that's good, then i'll know we'll never be invaded/enslaved

[Anonymous No.5505029]

>>5505002
Inspiring.
It's even not impossible.
But really, what are the odds ?


... We are the Precursors. Great architects of technological wonders, monuments to our glory.

... Or the great Devils, creators of the Wave of Death extinguishing all in its path.
Would they realise that it's just von neuman probes ?

[Anonymous No.5505039]

>>5505029
>>5505002
2deep4me

Look, stop trying to make it all poetic.
The answer is pretty simple. If we're actually alone in the Universe, then we play "God". We shoot microbes all over the fucking galaxy, so that even when humanity is wiped out, "Life" still has a 4 billion year head start.

Humanity's going to die eventually. All trace of our existence is going to be wiped out. So we just need to jack our sperm all over the place and impregnate whatever planets we can.

[Anonymous No.5505088]

>>5505020
Do me any justice? What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.5507258]

>>5505002
That's pretty cool

[Anonymous No.5507292]

>>5505002
A million years? I assume that was an arbitrary value. I assume it'll be much longer before the history of this world becomes such a minuscule fraction of the whole that it is all but forgotten before being rediscovered.

[Anonymous No.5507335]

Quite the hypothetical.

[Anonymous No.5507358]

>at least 100,000,000,000^2 stars
>alone

lol

[Anonymous No.5507433]

Maybe we are the purpose of the universe... Maybe the human race is being grown with the universe as a womb. We may seem pretty insignificant at the moment, but in another hundred billion years humans will have developed into a race of super beings who will no longer seem like a product of chaotic formation of atoms. Maybe some form of incomprehensible higher intelligence finely tuned the universe so that a single inhabitable planet would be formed, allowing us to begin to develop until we no longer depend on it.

We could currently be nothing more than a baby in a womb

[Anonymous No.5507445]

>>5507433
What if god decides to have an abortion?

[Anonymous No.5507468]

>>5507445
then we're fucked.

[Anonymous No.5507541]

What if my cunt spontaneously generated an alternate universe?

[Anonymous No.5507550]

>>5507541
What my penis entered your vagina, as in sexual intercourse.
My penis is thick and big, for some species.

[Anonymous No.5507677]

>>5507550
Like toads?

[Anonymous No.5507683]

>>5505002
>implying humanity will ever become a space faring species
>implying humanity will do anything of note before we wipe ourselves out with perpetual war or the sun consumes the planet

[Anonymous No.5507711]

sagittarius dwarf galaxy anyone?

[Anonymous No.5508532]

But if the universe is infinitely large, and there are 1/infinity planets with life, then there are also 2/infinity, 3/infinity, etc.

[Anonymous No.5508556]

>>5507683
>implying pessimism
>implying depressed
>implying sad
>implying emo
>implying implications
OH LAWD

[Anonymous No.5508569]

> What if we are truly alone?
Maybe it's a good thing

[Anonymous No.5508572]

well, i wouldn't be too sad, you're all fabulous to me! xxx

[Anonymous No.5508590]

>>5507683
>implying humanity will ever become a space faring species
We've already been to the moon, i have little doubt that we'll have at least one mission where someone lives on a station on the moon for a contious time within the next 100 years, by then we've probably also had a man on Mars
>implying humanity will do anything of note before we wipe ourselves out with perpetual war or the sun consumes the planet
If there is another species out there and they find earth after we've died off, just the fact that we lived would be enough to be of major interest

You're just irrationally pessimistic

[Anonymous No.5508593]

>>5508532
Add to that the idea that Mars is thought to possibly house life one day, or have done so
>2 in a solarsystem with 8
>1/4
>we've not even explored 1/4 yet

[Anonymous No.5508594]

>>5504968
If we do not find aliens, we will find their creations. Or maybe they'll find ours. We'd better get started on that AI.

[Solardarity !DNRaYdJbog No.5508597]

>>5504968

Thinking like this gets me in the feels every time. I always sit in wait hoping that a space-faring species will one day visit us in my life time, share knowledge with us and help uplift us, maybe I might get to talk to one.

A boy can dream.

[Anonymous No.5508600]

>>5504968
> What if we are the only beings in the universe?

So unlikely that the chance of that happening is essentially zero.

But from the available evidence, meeting another intelligent and technological species is pretty much impossible. The Silent Sky proves that galactic spacefarers just don't exist. From our own example, the economic effort to become spacefaring is just too large. Obviously no one has done it; hence, even intelligent species remain confined to their planetary cradles.

It's sad, really, to finally understand that intelligence in our galaxy never leaves the womb. Since planets always undergo disasters over time, this means intelligence is always wiped out.

[Anonymous No.5508604]

>>5508597
> I always sit in wait hoping that a space-faring species will one day visit us

It's even sadder that you can't see the irony in that statement. Alien basement dwellers 550 lightyears away are doing the same thing. You can't have a galactic civilization composed of a number of species that just sit on their planets, crying and whining that space travel isn't affordable, when planetary and solar catastrophes kill off these species one after another.

You can't sanely expect that waiting for a visit is a viable strategy. But I'd never accuse a Violent Simian of being SANE.

[Anonymous No.5508628]

>>5504968
>What if we are the only beings in the universe?
I kind of doubt that we are, though on the one hand I actually kind of hope that we are. That may sound strange, but I remember a guy on TV making a bet with the audience that first contact with intelligent life will happen within 25 years. If not, he owes me 25 bucks and a cup of coffee. He made that promise 7 years and two months ago, and due to being incredibly autismal, I still remember. I forgot his name, but I'll find out when the time is there (17 years and 10 months from now if all goes well).

[Anonymous No.5508636]

>>5508628
you want our species to wander in loneliness and ignorance so you can have 25 bucks?
You truly are a supervillain with no regards for anyone but himself

[Anonymous No.5508639]

>>5508636
Uh, 25€ puts him squarely in the petty villain henchman-category.

Whoever made him think that money is so important, that's the one who is a supervillain.

[Anonymous No.5508647]

>>5508636
I actually don't want that. The post was more of a joke (although the bet thing is true).

To be honest, I don't actually care all that much about whether there is intelligent life out there or not. What difference does it make if we discover it or not? The vast expanses still lie out there for us to explore, and there are myriads of things to discover that will be just as interesting as life. Even on our own little planet we're far from done exploring. There are so many things we even do not yet understand about ourselves that it's mind boggling. Don't get me wrong, discovering other life would be cool, but in my opinion it is definitely not the only thing which makes exploration worth the effort.