• I mean, you can put some very reasonable, scientifically sound assumptions into the Drake Equation and it really starts to look like we might be alone. I had a professor in college that held this view.

      But you can also change the variables and it looks like life is common so idk

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        Id believe in God, like the Christian God, before believing that. It’s too unlikely. Whether or not physics works in a way where we can communicate is another, but there’s no shot there isn’t some form of other sentience in the universe

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      Maybe it’s pedantic to point this out, but I seriously doubt anything humans can do would be able to wipe out all life on Earth, and I include nuclear weapons in that. Microbes can live in some crazy environments, and it only takes one surviving for life to persist and evolve into new species.

      Human beings, on the other hand, and especially human civilization as we know it, well…