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ramblerman | 2 months ago

> Some days I just can’t get over how we’re just the dumbest ##^*ing species to ever visit space

I also think we are pretty dumb. But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species

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Waterluvian|2 months ago

There is none. I just need to believe intelligent life trends much higher than this.

mrguyorama|2 months ago

Any species able to visit us would be definitionally smarter than us, since they somehow break the rules of physics as we know them, so they either have way better math and data, or are magic, which frankly I would treat as "smarter"

tbrownaw|2 months ago

> *But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species"

Us being the dumbest spacefaring species does not necessarily imply the existence of spacefaring species other than us.