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Our earth is only 4 billion years old in a universe that is 14 billion years old. What could a species learn, create, and do that has a 2 or 3 billion year head start on us? what about 10?

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they probably have better memes.

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Read the SciFi trilogy starting with The Three-Body Problem. Deals with this exact thought/concept in an interesting way.