What if humans are the first intelligent life in the universe

>What if humans are the first intelligent life in the universe
we aren't

>>8249662
>what if

Who gives a damn honestly?

Here's fact #1: you won't be alive to see it

Here's fact #2: we will probably never leave the solar system

>>8249668
>Here's fact #2: we will probably never leave the solar system

What makes you think that? Even if we can't get anywhere close to light speed I'd imagine that eventually we'll have some huge Stanford torus type thing slowly moving to a distant star while generations of humans just live their lives waiting to arrive

>>8249662
>we aren't
prove it

>>8249668
I most likely won't be alive to see the meeting between human and alien life (if it ever happens, the sheer size of the universe or galaxy is an explanation for why it might not happen), but I do think we will leave the solar system (even if that doesn't necessarily mean colonizing a planet outside of the solar system). That doesn't really have too many requirements beyond what we can expect to have, though it won't happen in my lifetime (probably).

>>8249708
oh yeah, I can imagine those generations wandering through empty cold space, getting their energy from ??????????

>>8249720
Extremely efficient modes of reusable energy in the far future

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>mfw we will be the godlike ancient ones future civilizations humbly ask for help from in dire situations

>>8249662
Behold, he is The One Who Knows.

>>8249774
Imagine that. Such hopelessly infantile, broken things, become something to be sought out for its wisdom.

Could happen I guess. We're not the beginning nor the end.

>>8249774
that's pretty cool tbqh.

We really are a great ancient civilization [spoiler]with respect to the future[/spoiler].

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>>8249655
change universe to galaxy and it wont sound so retarded

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ITT: /tv/ or /co/ invade /sci/ yet again with their crappy space opera "ideas".

>>8249720
I dont know, maybe carrying along a moon for teh fusion energy??????

>>8249655
Literally play Halo, that's what it's about

>>8249954

Its true though, current evidence suggests we are likely to be the only sentient lifeforms in the visible universe

>>8250160
[citation needed]