From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/22/2026 6:33 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > 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.   
    >   
   We are alone, the single only self-conscious entity with intelligence.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)