this is all we have - Search for Advanced Civilizations beyond Earth Finds Nothing Obvious in 100,000 Galaxies
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Life finds a way
Uh huh.
Do you know what "life" does? Bacteria in a petri dish start out growing rather slowly at first, but their growth is exponential and when they get to a critical mass it appears as if their growth rate explodes. Suddenly, they're all over the dish.
And then, just as suddenly, they die- poisoned by their accumulated waste and starved by lack of food.
That's what "life" does: it grows to the limits of its resources, and then its pruned back by circumstances of its own making.
But I thought we were supposed to be INTELLIGENT life.
So, are we?
Intelligent?
The Earth got used up...
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One of the interesting things about Firefly - a show I love dearly- is its subtle use of what appears to be artificial gravity.
Also, they somewhat magically inhabit a solar system full of all kinds of easily-traversed distances, without the benefit of faster-than-light space travel.
Without gravity, people (and other species) fail. And taking a year to get to the next-nearest planet (and several centuries to reach the next star) is kind of a buzz-kill.
The Firefly future will never be ours. Please don't mistake a fiction (which we all love) for reality.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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100 years of aliens: From Mars beavers to little gray men
https://www.popsci.com/science/history-of-aliens/
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