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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But hey, if it happened once, maybe we'll get to find some remains of another system to which this happened as well. Or maybe, someday, someone else will find ours. Or perhaps gravity is the only force keeping us from drifting off the surface of our rock, preventing us from falling into the darkest void for eternity, with the vain hope that your frozen corpse will someday land in someone else's yard, like a cosmic frisbee.

[–] lunarul 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The universe is large enough that similar combinations of events could have happened elsewhere too. But it's also large enough that those places are most likely further from us than our species will ever travel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps too far to ever travel, but if we can detect it to at least be aware of their existence, then that might be enough for us. Just an answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Honestly, if we ever got a really credible answer, I'm sure we'd dramatically increase the pace of space travel research, to the point where we might innovate a way to get there. Maybe we do one of the space/time bending options, or maybe we find a way to punch a hole through spacetime or something like that. If there's a will, we'll put a ton of resources into exhausting every potential way to do it before giving up. It might even create multi-national unity in a way that we've never thought possible.

So please, if you're an alien that's been quietly listening to our broadcasts, please send an answer somehow.