What if the human race is the first species to have developed intelligent life in the universe?

What if the human race is the first species to have developed intelligent life in the universe?

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>infinite sadness

we probably are. inteligence was only needed due to the rapid changes in our environment. we aare unlikely to find anything above microbes
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Intelligence is over rated. We should of evolved in better ways. Like claws or some shit. Fucking wings and the ability to fly would be better than that.

That feeling of infinite loneliness just hit me when I read your post.

>spend thousands of years being degenerate instead of progressing to a type 2 or 3 civilization
>get enslaved by race of highly intelligent mushrooms
mfw

>implying there's a "human race"
>implying all races came to consciousness at the same time
haha.... no

Then we are destined to rule and conquer the galaxy and force lesser beings under our rule

Then god help the next poor bastards. Let's hope they do a better job of it.

>implying life on other planets isn't basically the same shit we have here

Aliens will probably disappoint.

>galaxy occupied exclusively by millions of different nations of humans
>we stay politically related because of our origin
>Planetary Union replaces UN
I think this would be equally as good as aliens. The appeal of aliens is always that they are different to us but what if there were thousands of human cultures on different planets? It sounds just as good to me.

>humans
>intelligent

Statistically impossible faggot, learn how to into learning - keyword astrobiology

tfw white could be the master race of the entire universe.

Youd have a better chance at hitting the lottery everday for 10 yrs, face it the surface population of Gaia is a purposely retarded species that was seeded in a grand dna experiment by extraterrestrial civilizations. Period.

It's statistically impossible, but the question lies on whether or not we will ultimately destroy ourselves

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>people in this thread actually think that the universe is infinite

Sure is nu in here

humans the first race?
you have GOT to be fucking kidding me
age of universe so far: 13 to 14 BILLION YEARS
age of earth: 3.5 BILLION years
number of potential planets for life: yuuuge, like quadrillions at least, a large percentage of which have been busy producing life for many billions of years before our planet even formed.

YOU ARE RETARDED
there is alien life out there, guaranteed
intelligent life, too
its a statistical certainty and a sure bet
close to us? not likely
in this galaxy? almost certainly
local group? same deal
general universe: SURE BET
this means you may never be able to reach or communicate with whatever might be close enough to see or hear, but considering the odds against "nice" aliens, its better to stay away in terms of first contact policy, just like a scared monkey in the jungle, we've got to just keep quiet, not move around too much and observe.
there is a very good possibility of planet-killing long-distance attacks from hostile unknowns that wouldn't even get here for centuries or something but could wipe us out pretty easily, they can be patient, having the tech ready to shoot, perhaps, whereas we don't even have a stick with poo on it we can use

What if the humanoids are a galactic race and planets are seeded with our kind?
Eventually we become technologically advanced enough to make it out into far space on our own and then we're contacted to join a federation of sorts?

so fucking what it's not like we're ever going to actually get off this rock anyway fuck does it matter

It's statistically impossible that we exist. The odds of everything coming together over the course of billions of years to produce sentient life is incalculable.

His question was "what if" you hyper autist

But if niggers exist in space does that make traps gay?

Literally Jupiter Rising.

Then it's very precious and we should seek to maximise its potential with mass eugenics and ethnic cleansing.

What if we have the biggest dicks of all sentient species in the universe?

There's more intelligent life out there.

It's just that everybody else out there is staying quiet, hiding from something.

Then intelligent life wouldn't be all it's cracked up to be.

We don't. If you're talking sheer size, many mammals have us beat. If you're talking dick to body ratio, then I think barnacles are the winners.

statistically improbable, but perfectly possible.

I have no interest in films made by mentally unstable faggots.

Consider how violent and warlike mankind is. Yeah, they could be much more advanced, but if it has a physical body bullets could probably kill it. Fuck off, space niggers.

Then that means I am one of the best living beings in the universe.

fear not

for we are the conquerers

tfw nigger space barnacles have the biggest dicks in the universe

This is really possible. It could be our ancient history isn't even about Earth.

Then we have a head start.
Eventually we will seed other planets with life and "grow" sentient companions.

In all likelihood though it is the other way around.

and I told him he was FUCKING RETARDED

its like asking, "what if santa claus was real?" when its just a stupid question to begin with.
>hyperautist
wew nice call
*tip*

Are you suggesting... we are the Forerunners?

>Intelligence is over rated.
>should of

Us.
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This is a very real possibility. Due to relativity it's very easy humans came to this planet a few hundred years ago, colonized it and all records of such thing were destroyed in a cataclysm as there have been many in our recent geological history ('Great Flood' at the end of the Pleistocene and etc). Then we could have not been contacted by other planet's humans because they inhabit other parts of the galaxy where according to relativity time passes far more slowly.

We colonize the rest of the universe then. If we truly are the greatest in the universe, we have a duty to hold our lead for as long as (humanly) possible.

But we already know that we share ancestors with chimps and bonobos, and can track our relatives like neanderthals. Humans 100% evolved on Earth.

If we end up making contact with other sentient alien life, chances are they will look, at least morphologically, similar to humans. The adaptive advantages of grip, bipedalism, mammary glands, weaker young, and large brains cannot be understated.

what does that even mean though? "statistically" impossible is a guess. doesnt mean its true >MUH STATISTICS

fucking classic kek gets me every time

There are no gods apart from us.

agreed, gas the niggers

It's not impossible or even unlikely. Yes, the universe is old as fuck, however intelligent life is complex as fuck. Really, we've only had a window of about 10 billion years for intelligent life to come about, and that's assuming it developed in the first place. The amount of events that could occur to make intelligent life impossible on Earth are staggering. Now take into consideration what happens if intelligent life doesn't make it into space before it inevitably gets BTFO by a GRB or a black hole. We have a tiny window of opportunity to make it into space before Yellowstone eradicates civilization.

>Precursors always leave universe-ending doomsday machines just laying around
>They always end up killing themselves by the hubris or fading away mysteriously
It adds up. We get to be the crazy precursor fucks who screw everything up for the rest of eternity.

Lot of work to do guys, lets get busy on that black hole game of marbles run on a battery that by design has to be replaced just in time by the evolution of a race on a nearby planet and them achieving local space travel before the radiation burst of the marbles game hits their planet and scours half of it clean and collapses the battery replacers so another interval has to pass for a second set of life to evolve.

Yes, but even without space niggers fucking anything with a penis is gay

Maybe the reason we'd be the first intelligent life that got into space is other lifeforms blew themselves the fuck out, like how we almost did during the cold war.

Do space niggers exist ?

Then the Muppet show could include Niiiigggggs in Spaaaaace

What is the purpose of a universe with no Xenos to purge?

>What if the human race is the first species to have developed intelligent life in the universe?
BUTLERIAN JIHAD

we've always been the space niggers

>tfw anglo saxons are the peak of life in the universe

>But we already know that we share ancestors with chimps and bonobos, and can track our relatives like neanderthals. Humans 100% evolved on Earth.
Not necessarily. A space faring race would introduce with it many lifeforms from its original world during the process of colonization.

Elon Musk, for instance, proposed bringing earth worms to Mars.
>introduce earth worms
>they spread like wilfire
>land becomes fertile with time
>introduce plants
>introduce species that can be used as food and that will multiply like crazy in absence of predators (rabbits, chicken, pigeons)
>etc etc.

Sounds like a good plan to me. Yeah, atmosphere and all that sht but that's another part of the process of terraforming.

Once we go and colonize other stars people will genetically engineer animal traits and become abhumans. The universe will prove to be far more mundane than people want.

I aint even scared of type-4 civilizations, you gotta be a faggot to die from blackholes

>What if the human race is the first species to have developed intelligent life in the universe?

It is entirely possible.

Genetic engineering on alive human beings would be pretty fucking awesome to be honest. I can't wait for it to happen.

Our violence and warring capacity is an asset. It allows us to catalyze the economy when population to resource ratios get us stuck in subsistence traps.

>tfw you realize the reason no ayy lmaos have shown up and said waddup is because almost all the intelligent species fail to get much further than where we at now, dying out from countless reasons

>we're not going to be any different

I'm pretty sure we're not, I kinda believe life evolved on Earth before us and left.

They dont wanna get btfo by the reapers

It's not infinite. But it's hard to conceive how large it is


That being the case as specific as our situation is. It's not that specific. Its. It even the most stable possible

being genetically engineered is degenerate

stay with your natural human form and actually put in effort to maximise your abilities normally otherwise you're a nigger that gave the jews access to your dna, dont worry though, Im sure they totally wont exploit that in any way

It really is not though. Your talking about us specifically which is simple the conundrum of existence. If we did not others would ask the same question.

>hurrrhurrr genetic engineering is jewish
Might as well stop using ballpoint pens, instant coffee and computers too.

Seriously, if your criteria for choosing something to do is whether there is a jew or not among the thousands of people involved in it you really need to off yourself.

>the human race is the first species to have developed intelligent life in the universe?
>developed
when did we do that ? genetic engineering is in its infancy . adding genes from other things to another organism is about all humanity can do at the moment

nobody has done enough work trial and error wise to determine what most of the code means. loose ideas sure but not what the difference between 1 sample and the same sample with 2 base pairs changed in 1 place does

with out that coding from scratch is a pipe dream. no understanding of how the blue print is turned into shapes or what segments reference what cells or what any of the base code means for how cells are made

The problem with interstellar travel is once you can hit relativistic speeds, you've basically made a super-nuke that can take out entire star systems, even at 5% of light speed, and entire sectors of galaxies if you ever get near light speed with enough mass. The Millennium Falcon could take out the entire Milkyway galaxy if it bumped into some dark matter or a gas cloud.

If you wanted to colonize the universe It's teleportation or bust. Von Neumann probe might work if we ever create magic super computers and wanted to wait 10,000 years minimum, but they could turn into cancerous berserker probes or just stop working because of some unforeseen error.

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>letting someone manipulate your very genetics and adjust what you and your offspring look like and are capable of doing thus determining the future of your lineage
>equal in risk to using a pen or drinking coffee

>mfw some top scientists including famous ones put forward this theiry
>fedoras get competely btfo because to them it implies God

"Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord"

There is nothing wrong as long as it's the individual that decides to take the risk and is the one responsible of choosing who will trust his DNA to. All new technologies are uncharted territory and many problems arise as they develop, that is no reason to stop people from using it. What would have happened if back then in WW2 the FDA existed and prevented antibiotics like penicilin from being used out of "safety concerns"?

What if we could make the brain work better, increasing, say, 30 IQ points? What if we could double the average human lifespan? The risks are big but the potential rewards are damn HUGE. Too huge to ban it or refuse to do it altogether just out of fear of some 'ebil joos' meddling with it once the science is well established.

There are many benefitial things gene engineering therapy could be used for the advancement of the species. For example, it is suspected humans suffered a mutation thousands of years ago that made them stop producing vitamin C (for most animals Vit.C is not a vitamin, it's a hormone). Animals that produce their own vitamin C live an average of 8-10 times the time it takes them to reach maturity, while for those who don't it's only 3-4 times. We are in the last group, and we synthesize three out of the four enzimes that would be necessary for us to regain that ability.

Do the numbers. Humans reach their full maturity in their early twenties, multiply this for 3-4 and you get 60-80 years, which is the normal range of life expectancy for natural death in most countries. Now do the math with the other numbers, multiply 20 by 8-10 and you get human lifespans of 160-200 years. And all of this we could have if we just managed to accomplish to make this specific mutation work in humans. The possibilities when you consider other things are endless.

The potential benefits of improving your genetics are too big to not consider it for a reason as vague as "it's degenerate" or "da joos".

fuck all of you earth human nigger nogs looks and you monkies.

>his family doesnt already have an average lifespan of 280 years

lul, sorry you're genetics are shit by themselves so you have to get Dr.Shekelstein to fake them for you

Fuck off Nephilim, you're a dead race. Humans will inherit the Earth!

I think it's more likely that circumventing special relativity and therby achieving faster than light travel is just outright impossible dooming any sentiment species unfortunate enough to emerges to living out it's brief existence in it's own lonely corner of the universe. Life can and probably has emerged on other planets but planets capable of supporting life or so rare relative to the vastness of space any signals or messages sent out by a species would likely degrade to the point that they are lost in background radiation due to the great distances involved by the time the reached another planet bearing intelligent beings capable of understanding. Even should a message have enough power to compensate for the signal decay it would have to reach another planet at just the point in it's inhabitants development for them to receive such a signal and any message sent being limited by relativistic speeds means the senders would likely by long dead.

There is a very real possibility that all around us are the imperceptible echoing voices of the ancient dead screaming out into the cosmos that they exist, that they are here, crying out into the void begging to be noticed only for their pleas to ultimately fall unto deaf ears.

as we look out into the universe, our consciousness collapses the waveforms, taking an infinite set of continuous probabilities and reducing it to a discrete, limited set. This creates the low entropy side of an entropic gradient, upon which all life depends.
The more we gaze, the more we seed the skies with stars and planets and life.
We are gods

>only being 8 feet tall

absolute shit tier genetics

>By some miracle we make it to another planet
>Find aliens, world celebrates waiting for societal catharsis
>Turns out the aliens have spent millions of years perfecting degeneracy to a level incomprehensible to humans


yeah, that would be one hell of punchline.

"The All is Mind, the universe is Mental."

Considering the vastness of the universe, I doubt that we are the first or will be the last intelligent species to exist, but it's very unlikely we will ever make contact.

>australian transcendental shitposting

Then we shall stride forever onward into the great unknown forging order from the expanse if chaos.

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Then the universe is fucked.

Naw, that kind of thought is a result of Brazilian education system.

The true wonder though is... how diverse life in the universe can be.

There's two schools of thought here:
1) Because physics is the same everywhere there will be some sort of 'convergence' of design so aylmaos will end up looking atleast somewhat similar to earth's animals.

2) Because the origin point in evolution is so different.. tiny differences in evolutionary paths could make extremely vast differences in final outcomes.
For instance if they took a different route at the bacterial stage, where their bacteria had a few extra parts ours didn't.. that difference would carry forward through evolution so far that... they might be completely incomprehensible to us. Their brains might not actually be neural networks but...Biological Von neuman architecture machines (Computers with registers and ram etc.).

>human race
>intelligent life

What makes you say that user?

I unironically believe the third, and suspect about the fourth. Fifth is possible though I can't comprehend by now.

God damn it we have to make all the fun races like space elves and orks ourselves, like the old ones did in Warhammer 40k

>statistically
wat

There is life everywhere in the universe. Its full of it. We are trapped in flesh vessels on this planet. Real life doesnt need to breathe air.
Aliens are like ghosts to us. They are among us now too but most of us cant see them because they are prisoners of their flesh-mind

>"intelligent life"
Literally a bunch of evolved primates that think because they harnessed naturally occurring electrical properties in their universe to create objects to show them pictures or videos of other people, or show themselves to others, or made some guns and weapons that they're "intelligent".

Tell me what you think makes an intelligent species before you claim that we are one. Because we're not.

However I do believe that we are the first life that has reached this level of consciousness. The evidence for extra terrestrial life anywhere in our known universe just isn't there yet. I feel like the universe is a lot more young, and boring than people think it is.

>natsocs finally exterminate every single last jew on Earth
>ayy vey shut it down, the earth goyim in sector 723 are getting uppity