I mean, you can put some very reasonable, scientifically sound assumptions into the Drake Equation and it really starts to look like we might be alone. I had a professor in college that held this view.

But you can also change the variables and it looks like life is common so idk

[–] Lamprey@hexbear.net 1 points 21 hours ago

Id believe in God, like the Christian God, before believing that. It's too unlikely. Whether or not physics works in a way where we can communicate is another, but there's no shot there isn't some form of other sentience in the universe

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe it's pedantic to point this out, but I seriously doubt anything humans can do would be able to wipe out all life on Earth, and I include nuclear weapons in that. Microbes can live in some crazy environments, and it only takes one surviving for life to persist and evolve into new species.

Human beings, on the other hand, and especially human civilization as we know it, well...

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Is there any good studies or models showing how long shit like heavy metals and other chemicals will remain bioaccumulating in different food-chains like in lakes or coasts?

To think that will be our mark beyond the scorched steel frames and various hotspots of radiological, chemical or environmental damage.

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

We could probably Wandering Planet ourselves into the sun/out of the solar system. But that'd be deliberate rather than accidental, most likely.

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean it's HIGHLY unlikely Milky Way alone has 100 billion+ stars in it alone and probably like 1 trillion planets

It's crazy just how big the universe is frightening, were just a speck of dust.