We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK
by Paul Sutter from Ars Technica - All content on (#6BSM1)
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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.
The Universe is ours for the taking.