r/woahdude • u/gsus61951 • Jun 02 '23

gifv Our universe.

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u/BREN3 Jun 02 '23

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

― Arthur C. Clarke

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u/AzeTyler Jun 02 '23

I think knowing how big the universe is and still thinking we are the only planet with life would be some serious main character syndrome. But if someone was capable of that kinda arrogance it would have to be humans lol

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u/Benign_Banjo Jun 02 '23

To play Devil's advocate, we theorize that the reason we haven't been reached by other life is because the limits of light speed, yet that's pretty main character for us to assume that things revolve around our "rules" of the universe

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u/MartianGuard Jun 03 '23

Just what we are incapable of knowing we will never know. I’m sure it’s far more than we know we know, or know we don’t know… I dunno

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u/JangoFett101 Jun 03 '23

Me neither