RE: Reaction to extra-terrestial life.
August 21, 2014 at 1:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2014 at 1:44 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 21, 2014 at 12:48 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: I think there may be a possibility that developing technology is an evolutionary loser. That every creature that develops civilization eventually depletes the resources of their planet and dies out. That ours may be a tragic comedy that's played out thousands of times and that's why we get no contact from extra terrestrials. We just have too much hubris about our technology to realize it.
Every life sustaining planet will eventually completely loses the ability to sustain life. Without technology there is no escaping from the planet or retarding the inevitable day of total life support collapse. Therefore no technology is a 100% certain bet for extinction on the cosmological time scale.
For any complex life we can seriously imagine, technology offers the only path available to prolonging a planet's habitability, and to escape the planet when it eventually becomes uninhabitable.
Technology may enable life to destroy itself before nature would otherwise do it in. But without technology nature will absolutely certainly do all life in. Technology offers the only slim possibility that there is to beat nature.
