Here's a brief thought exercise for you:
What if there is life on other planets, but it turns out that it is physically impossible to exceed the speed of light? No such thing as Warp Speed, Hyper Speed, or even Ludicrous Speed.
That would certainly finish the job that Copernicus started - relieving us of our humancentric view of the universe. But while evidential knowledge of life out there might serve as something as a motivator for us, we could never meet, communicate, or in any other way share information with our cosmos co-inhabitants. Effectively then, we would be alone in the universe.
It would make sense to me if this was the way that The Creative Force Behind Everything, aka God, chose to do it. Each beautiful macrocosm given the same opportunity to make it, to fully develop and reflect the spark of the Creator resident within them.
The reality of our alone-ness would eliminate the pipe dream of some more intelligent life form swooping in to the rescue, fixing our problems and cleaning up our messes. And whether or not this scenario is accurate, I propose that we need to think this way. Urgently.
For the first time in human history we have generated problems serious enough to potentially wipe out human life on this planet. That's quite an accomplishment, and we will require a world-centric consciousness to solve these problems.
Einstein, or whoever said it, was right: We can't solve problems with the same thinking that got us into them. For that we will need to evolve, and this we will have to do on our own.
And since no one is coming to help, we had better get started.
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