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Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think. (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, the universe is also so old as to allow quite a bit of it to have reached us by now even limited to "unreasonable" timeframes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But also so old that it could have reached us before humans ever evolved.