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by hdivider
3224 days ago
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Takes courage to make such statements on HN. Kudos to you for that. Humans are biased to view themselves as the most evolved, sophisticated and important species. A glance at the history of science shows this. Slowly, we become aware of our bias and notice how damn lucky we are to survive to this day. Ages ago, nature almost killed us off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti... And in modern times, we almost wiped out our civilization many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls We are lucky to be here. Gotta make the most of it. IMO a good place to start: to value the other surviving animals on this planet. You could travel 10,000 light years but you will find them only on Earth. |
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(sorry for the Reddit'ism, but:) This. That sentence is subtly and unexpectedly profound.
Imagine having developed interstellar or even intergalactic travel, and after having colonized multiple solar systems, we find that life isn't so rare after all, but the specific lifeforms on Earth were.
What if we find that each life-bearing planet has its own unique creatures, not to be found anywhere else in the infinity of the Universe, and we may never again see the creatures we wiped out here on Earth?