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user-inactivated  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your favorite question?

Are we alone in the Universe?

Either answer to that question is humbling and terrifying.





user-inactivated  ·  3179 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

— Arthur C. Clarke.

I suppose you might be looking for this.

user-inactivated  ·  3179 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeap that was the quote I was thinking of. I think the saddest side of that equation is knowing that there is life out there, but the limitations of physics are such that we can never communicate or swing by for a visit.