Humanity alone in the universe

[Monk]

Re: Humanity alone in the universe

@Ghost14

Interesting post from Reddit. This guy explains why being alone in the universe is actually a scary thought. It would mean that the entire responsibility and safe guarding of the cosmos depends on humanity’s ability to shed our warmongering ways and foster the growth and development of organic life and civilization. Think about that: if it’s on us to establish and colonize other planets, and we have the ability to thrive for millions of years more, then on that scale, how petty is the India-Pakistan conflict, or WW2, or the Cold War?

Thoughts?

"It means that if you value intelligence, technology, or understanding the universe then you realize that we, as humans, are not only the very best that the universe has to offer, but that it’s all on us. If we screw up then the universe will remain a mystery. It makes us the one single light of reason in an incomprehensibly large and dark room.

And it means that we are alone in facing our problems, alone in experiencing war and hate and all the darkness that comes from intelligence misused, it means no one and nothing is going to show up and say “Hey humanity, you’ve done well you know? You screwed up some places, but so did we.”
For me the idea that humanity is the only glimmer of intelligence in the universe makes all our petty squabbles and politics more damning. It means that the people in power are risking stakes they cannot comprehend for gains so short term that they’re not even visible on a geological scale, much less a cosmic one. Imagine all that humanity could accomplish, the colonies of life and reason spreading throughout the cosmos, every planet we visit and terraform would bring new and unique life into the universe, imagine the wonders we could create and then realize that we risk it all over things which won’t matter in 40 years or which would be better solved using reason. Add to it the fact that we risk all of that potential not only for ourselves but for the universe at large, and it is an awesome responsibility."

then again

seriously we need to put science fiction movies and scientists back in their pajamas.
This era of enlightenment would be know scientific-dark-age.

I don’t have problem with aspirations, but thinking what scientist tell us to think almost brought us to extinction.

West can not shut up about their achievement of separation of church and govt. I wonder when separation of science and Govt would start.