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Allow me to clarify
Socrates II — (archived)

I agree that life, especially "aware" life, is quite rare as far as we know
(just one data point on one planet so far). If we are the only intelligent
beings in the galaxy, then that will truly make us precious and unique.

However, ignoring for the moment whether there are millions of
intelligent beings in the Milky Way or just one, looking at the human
species from a cosmic scale, we are about as noticable and significant
on that level as a group of bacteria somewhere in New York City. In
fact, even that scale is not sufficient for how physically small we are
in the Cosmos.

I bring this up because I get so tired of so many people who think their
lives and their views are the be-all and end-all of everything, when in
reality our Sun is a faint star if you head only a few dozen light years
into the galaxy, and our planet isn't even a blip.

Time to rewatch Powers of Ten.

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