As always, I find it silly that we are making conclusions that something doesn’t exist or is impossible via telescope observations. To make claims that there are no advanced civilizations is akin to sitting in your living room, looking out the windows, seeing no one and coming to the conclusion that you are the only…

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Humans have not encountered alien life yet but that does not mean they are unique. Earth is a good a case for the possibility of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. It happened on Earth so it is at least possible that it happened elsewhere in the galaxy, and/or in other galaxies. Keep in mind that the Milky Way galaxy…

This is what I’ve never understood about these discussions. We’re literally looking into the past and our ability to do even THAT is fairly new. It just screams of hubris as people declare this stuff impossible.

No, we’re just too primitive ourselves to really be able to travel or reach out.

That’s assuming that given more time there wouldn’t have been a dinosaur (or other creature that died out around the same time) that evolved a larger brain and into an advanced civilization before we did. That would have kept us from evolving as far as we did. Or maybe even have evolved together like the Xindi on…

I'm not sure the Dune answer captures it in its entirety. The Padishah Empire was the military and financial power that held everything in that society together. The Dune universe was ripe with competing great houses who are constantly at each others' throats (and possess "atomics.") There were religious and…

Aside from BioShock, this series is a Libertarian nightmare.