JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for May 02, 2023

According to that show…SG-1?…we did populate the universe.

Judging with the progress so far, we will fail the test :-(

Before or afterwards the humans become extinct?

Kids are killing other kids daily in Philadelphia.

Game over, man!!!

Maybe some mysteries were best left unsolved.

Then we’re nothing more than test subjects, Sunny?

Salvor Hardin for President!

I never agreed with the trope that space travel would make a species enlightened.

There is life on other planets. But what he is saying is that there is intelligent life that has found a method to cross many light years of interstellar space. And of that there is no real evidence.

Well, we failed that one big time.

There was a recent Koursgasagt…(no idea if I spelled that right) video on youtube about the possibility of galactic civilization, which pointed out that our galaxy is about 10 billion years old, but for the first few billion years rapid star formation could have produced a radiation environment that might have sterilized planets, and there is a possibility that the galaxy itself might not have been habitable until around the time Earth formed just under 5 billion years ago, so if there is alien civilization out there they might be no more advanced than us, or at least they haven’t had enough of a head start to explore the entire galaxy yet. We might even be the first, after all for 2 billion years the planet was inhabited by bacteria, which seems like a long time but what if that bump to multicellularity takes even longer on average? That’s the disappointing but still possible answer to the Fermi paradox.

Sorry, but if humanity was being honest, its first two interstellar exploration ships would be named UES We’re Coming To Blow You Up and UES We’re Coming To Take Your Stuff.

Violence is nature’s way of handling many problems.

I really can’t imagine that we are the only sentient life in the universe. But, what if we were? I wonder.

“Dang pop quizzes!!”

“And pray there’s intelligent life somewhere else in space, ‘cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.”

We’re some student’s lab experiment.

That alludes that there are other students conducting similar experiments.

Interesting to think that every galaxy is a lab maze and that Earth is the rat in our own particular maze.

Humans are the result of what happens when ‘intelligent’ interstellar explorers don’t adhere to the Prime Directive.

I’ve heard a lot of theories on this subject, but this is the first time I’ve heard this one. And it’s pretty thought-provoking!

If we are a test, I sense that we are close to just getting a D, and that may be a little high.