In the DCAU, Superman gives a speech about a World of Cardboard, then proceeds to punch Darkseid through a half dozen buildings that collapse around him because Superman doesn’t give a fuck.

Superman has killed Zod THREE TIMES in the comics and twice in the movies. Let’s just stop having this argument now.

He traveled back in time and got them all out of the city - you just didnt saw it...*cough* ;)

I really saw it in her eyes, personally. To me, it looked like had it been under any other circunstances, she would've been much more openly emotional. But she *is* a judge, with an important job, & this man had good reason to appear before her. She didn't *have* to say anything at all, but chose to because she did…

Yeah, don’t think you’re getting what most of us are getting from this. Your loss.

Right, but for a meatbag living on a ball of dirt on the Oort Cloud, what's the difference between 10^50 and 10^48?

I’m still pissed about him being the Flash. That’s one of the most punchable faces ever. He looks like a concentrated distillation of insuferable hipster.

“I’m incredibly butthurt that I’m not getting my dream movie - Adam West’s Batman & Pals Funtime Extravaganza”

It’s fucking awesome. It’s like the tumbler and the Tim burton batmobile had a baby.

I’m still sour over Almost Human.

Seeing social politics in everything must be EXHAUSTING.

“Osgood news, everyone!”

What I think people forget is that sentience doesn't necessarily lead to the kind of technology we have today. It takes a certain mind-set to decide that people need to dominate and edit the entire natural world, and to whom "nature" exists as a category that stands outside themselves...

Amen x 1000.

Could Earth already have had a technical civilization? That was one of the nice ideas in Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time". That claimed that many civilizations had risen and fallen on the Earth, but that they were separated by such vast gulfs of time that they were forgotten by the time the next one came around. A…

There's also the matter of how long humans have existed on this planet relative to how long life has existed here. We swarmed upright from the savanna only a teeny-tiny fraction of world's history ago.

They were close relatives for sure. Does that not count? Did the intellectual tipping point happen in a common ancestor or did Sapiens and Neanderthals and whoever else evolve it independently? I don't know, but now I want Neanderthal space opera.

I guess that depends on your definition of "technology". Arrow heads were at one point at the forefront of "technology". If you consider that, then we have other species who use tools which might be form of technology.

Although it might be because to reach so far the species needs to dominate enough that no other species are consider a threat and so it can expand freely. It's very likly to be several of species that has the potential to evolve to that level if they are given time and space.

If you count extinct species, there have been over 100 million on Earth. You make a fair point. I think we take just how rare sentient life is for granted.