https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-send-transmit-earth-location-aliens-stephen-hawking-warning-arecibo-1694139

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The key part of that sentence was "with horrible implications for us." I'm not specifically referring to "Something giant eating us all and killing us" or something like that. I mean to find out we're alone would be horrible, to find out intelligence is a fluke would be horrible, to find out we exist in a blink between the ticking hands of the cosmic clock would suck, a linear model for the experience of time not being the norm wouldn't be great either tbh.

    there is no reason to torture yourself over something that has a 99% chance of just being the most obvious thing of “nobody developed radio”

    I assure you I only think about this stuff when someone makes a related post, I don't lay awake at night thinking about this stuff because I have more mundane things to keep me awake all night. :P

    • catposter [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      oh im a dumbass

      yeah i sorta became desensitized from crippling existential fear of loneliness thanks to capitalism. not cured just desensitized.