Mother BonesWell, that's depressing
"Iranian physicists estimate advanced civilizations last 5,000 years or less"
[H/T @geistweg]
eI prefer to think we are being avoided as an interstellar backwater full of reprehensible behavior
Or, I guess, I wouldn't really mind if we were early
@e I know statistically there should be others. But the details of the universe are so frilly and fractal and evanescent. And for some reason I feel like intelligence or even sentience is a human obsession, not even necessarily that significant. I don't even know where I'm going with this. But something about it nags at me.