Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86

Re:Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86 by isostatic on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:35AM (#17165782)

190 million, but your point remains. Exponential growth is surprising even when you understand it.

The fact we don't see the galaxy teeming with life is either 1) intelligent life inevitably evolves rapidly into something unrecognisable 2) we are unique, and not just in our galaxy. Once you hit galactic scale civilisation, neighbouring galaxies don't take long 3) we are part of that expansion

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Re:Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86 by wpietri on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:47AM (#17171131)

Or that there are intelligent species that don't like competition. You might read Bear's Forge of God, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forge_of_God

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