we continue to look for intelligent life in the universe because we have yet to find any here
If it bleeds we can kill it plays qietly in the background
“Stop shaving you don’t have a beard”
Corpseing.
We can’t even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we’ve settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!
This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.
Imagine what alien flesh would taste like! Mmmmm😋
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Our thirst for blood cannot be bound by Sol’s gravity.
Blood for the blood god!
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!
There is a reason we direct antennas to detect intelligent live away from earth
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.
This saddens the hell out of me. I’m doing what I can to keep my impact minimal but still. To be alive, to engineer, hurts the planet if you’re not very very careful.
Is there life elsewhere on the universe?
Most likely
Does it move?
Shoot it
Seek out new life and new civilizations, and introduce deadly biological pathogens to their ecosystems!
Kind of relevant short story - my favourite
https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
Yes, absolutely. Sapient life? Most likely.
But will we ever have the chance to kill them?
Unless we can find a way to regularly exceed the speed of light… Not directly.
But Von Neumann probes might be the most efficient method of mass murder ever conceived!
Probably not, fortunately for them.
How can we sleep at night knowing they are living peacefully without democracy!
I suddenly want to play Championship Manager. Couldn’t possibly tell you why.
