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Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity?
An anonymous reader writes "The discovery of Kepler-186f last week has dusted off an interesting theory regarding the fate of humanity and the link between that fate and the possibility of life on other planets. Known as the The Great Filter, this theory attempts to answer the Fermi Paradox (why we haven't found other complex life forms anywhere in our vast galaxy) by introducing the idea of an evolutionary bottleneck which would make the emergence of a life form capable of interstellar colonization statistically rare. As scientists gear up to search for life on Kepler-186f, some people are wondering if humanity has already gone through The Great Filter and miraculously survived or if it's still on our horizon and may lead to our extinction."
We don't deserve the stars.
We deserve death.
And if you think this is too harsh, you haven't studied our history like I have.
The last thing I would want to envision, is a humanity as it is, with some of the news paper headlines I read, to have any sort of access to anything in the Universe beyond your neighbor next store.
And no, Einstein, Monet and Newton do not make up for the past, or the future.
Death is what we deserve, and if we do not change, death is what should be for every man woman and child on this earth.
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Oh fuck off back to your "progressive" professor and die you misanthropic little skidmark. Take that cunt with you, it'll make a nice milestone on The Road Towards A Better Future.