Re:Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating pla...
by whimsicalism on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:23PM
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Selection pressure operates across all timescales and distance scales.
There is ample reason to believe that any prominent form of life in the galaxy would be expansionary, because otherwise it would be replaced by one that is.
There is no reason to believe that selection stops operating when we are talking about galaxy level scale.
Edit: I learned before that this view seems controversial to many people, but I fail to see how on these timescales “humanity” could not be just a transient spark of its own short time.