[goatlover]

Or we beat grabby aliens to the punch.

[giraffe_lady]

You can take care of the monster under my child's bed while you're at it.

[goatlover]

Or you could recognize the possibility that space might be treated as territory to be developed by more advanced intelligences that we could run into someday. There is a paper as a solution to the Fermi Paradox and YT videos under the term "grabby aliens".

[giraffe_lady]

I recognize the possibility I just don't accept it as a justification for a rerun of manifest destiny.

[itishappy]

Humanity as the great filter. A dark version of The Culture. Solid sci-fi premise!