Comment by baxtr

2 days ago

I think there is a theory that we’re not seeing any aliens simply because life on Earth started so early.

Or there are many planets with life, with each harboring their own equivalent to our sharks.

(And none of those shark-equivalents have developed a space program.)

  • There is life, then intelligent life like humans. Plus you have physical constraints like the speed of light.

  • That would be unfortunate.

    I’d love to see some space sharks!

    • We'd almost certainly find some way to kill them if we ever ran across any of them.

      We're pretty good at accomplishing things like that.

      One day, there's some space sharks swimming in a sea of liquid helium and doing deep dives to get to the smaller creatures that devour the seabed of diamonds.

      The next day, we're figuring out how to use space shark squeezings in our fusion reactors.

      Unless, of course, the space sharks figure out how to kill us first. They will probably try if that's useful to then.

      It's the circle of life.

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