Mine is probably the most boring: There are many intelligent species in the universe. Faster-than-light travel, however, really is simply impossible, meaning that there cannot exist a truly interstellar civilization. So while some species have probably settled solar systems other than their own through generation ships, suspended animation, time dilation, or whatever, their range of expansion is limited. This means that encounters between species of different planets are rare. Humans will most likely never contact any intelligent alien species, at most one or two. We might, however, discover evidence of their existence through telescopes or something.

  • InnuendOwO [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Y'know how humans just go "oh, ants" and ignore them? Y'know how ants probably cannot begin to comprehend what they're looking at when they see a person?

    Yeah, humans are just the ants of space, at least to any intergalactic society. No species sufficiently advanced enough to know about us would give enough of a shit about a species that can't leave its own planet's orbit and can't stop blowing each other up over territory and resource disputes that could be resolved by just working together and expanding outward instead.