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.

Comments

[fox-uk.livejournal.com]

This

[andygates.livejournal.com]

This?

[fox-uk.livejournal.com]

Apparently when someone posts something you agree with and, quite possibly, would have posted yourself had you been fast enough, internet convention is now to respond with the word "this" instead of some wordy "me too" type post.

Of course, it looses something if you have to explain it every time you do it. :P

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That "something" being "the status of 'convention'", I'd hazard to guess...

Right, we need the Singularity and fast. I'm not hanging around to get old and die on one silly little rock, no matter how precious.

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

it only saves two characters of space O.o

/me sticks with Me too, agreed or amen.