Beam Me Up

The Human Race: too fat to run, too stupid to hide, its Leitmotif infantile squabbles, driven by insecure, little egos with no sense of proportion, driving not only itself but everything around it to destruction.

If there is intelligent life in the Universe capable of interstellar travel then it’s no surprise to find it hasn’t contacted us — I don’t go to ‘Under Eighteen’ events either.

N.B. The Drake Equation has been shown to be unrealistically optimistic and more recent estimates place the likelihood of there being any other life in the known Universe at, at most, 35% … and probably so much lower as to render it highly likely that the Earth, in fact, houses the only known life in the entire known Universe.

Douglas Adams was right …

“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.” — Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Aliens aren’t coming to save/kill us … we’re on our own in a cold, uncaring universe that doesn’t even know we’re here now, never mind won’t miss us when we’re gone.