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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I mean the obvious thing is, we haven't come close to finding a loophole to the speed of light speed limit. in the massively tiny portion of the universe we can see, there's lots of "seems to have water, could possibly support life" planets, but well over 80 light years away (and those are the "close" ones).

Then if we do assume some life forms were to have faster than light travel, we are probably not a "no contact", but rather "low priority". To a species that far ahead of us technologically. They'd have access to billions of planets, at which point if life is relatively common, we'd be very un-special.