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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by sib301 on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:59AM (#27102855)
Or we’re early... How is that not an obvious possibility?
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Re:Astrobiologists have released the preliminary results of ... by bpodgursky on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:03AM (#27102877)
Sure, but given that humans are only about 500k years old, that makes us the only intelligent life so far.

The lack of any other intelligent life so far means that we have no evidence one way or another that we will succeed or fail. Better than if 100 million civilizations already tried and died.

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