From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:48:07 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/21/2026 7:25 AM, Julian wrote:   
   >> The last days of humanity being truly alone are here and now, an age of   
   >> wonders and woe.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Right now, as you read this, you are living through the golden age of   
   >> man. Not the one the poets imagined. Not some lost Eden. This. These   
   >> distracted, scrolling, complaining, extraordinary days. The last years   
   >> in which humanity is the only intelligence on Earth.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe that sounds dramatic to you. Maybe it doesn’t. My bet is that by   
   >> now you’ve used AI and you know some evangelists of it quite well and   
   >> they’ve been saying the same for months if not years. They’re not lying   
   >> to you.   
   >>   
   >> It is dramatic, but it is also true...   
   >>   
   >> https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/the-golden-age-of-man?   
   > >   
   >The question is: "Are we alone?   
   >   
   >Followed by: "Have we ever been alone?" - Giorgio A. Tsoukalos   
   >   
   >Followed by:   
   >   
   >"But, where is everybody?" - Enrico Fermi   
   >   
   >The Fermi Paradox is the contradiction between the high statistical   
   >probability that extraterrestrial life exists and the total lack of   
   >evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.   
   >   
   >The paradox in a nutshell:   
   >   
   >"The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive   
   >evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high   
   >likelihood of its existence."   
   >   
   >Note: Given the billions of stars in the Milky Way, many older than the   
   >Sun, intelligent life should be common and have colonized the galaxy by now.   
   >   
   >The conclusion: We are alone, the only intelligent and self conscious   
   >organism in existence.   
      
   So it would seem.  I was told that computer simulations show that   
   given the environment here on earth, what we have now would develop to   
   a near approximation every single time.   
      
   You can poopoo that if you want.  We are not going to test it and find   
   out.   
      
   The thing that inhibits connection is the enormous length of time it   
   would take for attempts to contact to arrive.  And   
      
   1) it could be many other intelligences have no interest in us.   
   2) given dynamics here on earth, it is likely that many civilizations   
   have eradicated themselves waiting for us to start listening.  The   
   chance that we might be listening at the moment when messages start   
   arriving are infinitesimal given the small window in infinite time for   
   that to happen.  And then if we respond, will they still be listening   
   millions or billions of years later when it arrives?   
      
   In such discussions we always forget about how big time is and how   
   small we are.   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)