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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Is it any more ore less plausible to think that even within a universe teeming with intelligent life, we here on earth remain on the cutting edge of new technology? Maybe we are the ones who have advanced the furthest.
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Classic human arrogance.
Just going by the numbers game. Billions of galaxies. Takes 1 intelligent species in every 100,000 of those to significantly reduce our odds of being the most advanced, and who knows if they're much more common than that.
And given that we've been around for essentially the blink of an eye, it wouldn't be a wise bet. I mean the vast majority of our technology has come about in the span of a measly few hundred years.
That's just easy to say when we can't see the forest from the single tree we've been staring at our whole existence. We're living in a tiny shoebox and many are assuming theres nothing interesting or advanced beyond us outside of it.
Talk about short sighted beliefs. But humans will human. We da best!