Ain't nobody here but us chickens

[andygates]

I'm not sure why, but lately I've become convinced that we are alone in the universe.  Just us, on our precious and singular little rock.  I don't think that it's the rock - my money is on the exoplanet guys finding a ton of Earthlikes soon - but I just have a gut feeling that they've all got bacterial mats, stromatolites, and that's the lot.



In the Drake equation, that's fi, the fraction of life-bearing planets which develop intelligent life.

It's a strange and profoundly melancholy feeling which makes even the most wretched human twaddle seen unbearably precious.

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[teahisme.livejournal.com]

(a total aside) *hugs KB*

I hope there are other civilizations out there. I used to use Seti as my screen saver. I have hope that one day we will rise above banging rocks into each others heads over mud, ethnocentrism, or whoever's gonads are bigger. I guess today that makes me an optimist. Check back in a few weeks for some doom and gloom.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be awful if we found other sentient life and it had politicians too?