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On 6/29/2024 1:08 AM, bitrex wrote:
> On 6/27/2024 5:17 PM, Don Y wrote:
> 
>>> Most big librarys carry AW.
>>>
>>> .<https://europa.nasa.gov/mission/about/>
>>>
>>> If it turns out that there is life in the ocean of Europa, which has
>>> existed for something like four billion years, it supports the general
>>> idea of "random but inevitable" theories of Abiogenesis.
>>
>> _Remembrance of Earth's Past_ has an interesting take on the whole
>> notion behind an "empty" universe.  It's a tedious read (mainly for
>> me coming from a non-chinese culture... just keeping track of the
>> characters is difficult) but has some good ideas to chew on at its core.
>>
>>
> 
> My guess: The Universe is mammoth, the technological and energy 
> requirements of even short-distance interstellar travel are immense, the 
> lifespan of technological civilizations is highly time-limited before 
> such a civilization destroys itself, technological civilizations are 
> very rare to begin with, and no technological civilization ever survives 
> long enough to attempt it.

I call this the "vexation and vanity" theory; by the time an intelligent 
species is sufficiently intelligent to even conceive of the concept of 
interstellar flight as plausible, the degree of collective insanity 
required to think these thoughts in the first place already ensures its 
destruction.