From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 22 01:59:45 2023
From the «maybe cool kids are hanging elsewhere» department:
Feed: Ars Technica - All content
Title: We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK
Author: Paul Sutter
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 07:00:24 -0400
Link: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939849
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Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but
one message for us: No one is answering.
But that solitude is not a curse. The great expanse of the empty heavens above us does not carry with it an impossible burden of loneliness. It begets a freedom—a freedom to explore, to be curious, to wonder, to expand.
