Satirical dry comments partner with science for an article: forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/08/..

While some theories might have us at the end of the universe’s life party, this suggests we’re at the very beginning and occupies the entertaining possibility we’re the first organic life to occupy this level of development; and that discovering alien life and interacting with it will likely be our mission; intended or not.

The formal report – with Forbes jokes removed – is here and one of the points raised is that we currently live in the 0.14% beginning stretch of the universes’ probable trillion-year life-span. We have another 99.86% of the universe’s life to go. There’s some other super-fancy math that I’m not going to pretend to know completely, so if you think you can understand it then feel free to read and regurgitate.

Have fun.

This is actually incredibly interesting.

Instead of saying that maybe we are the first to reach this tech/development level, I'd like to say that we're one of the first. I find it hard to believe that humans are the most advanced thing out there right now, although that might just be pop culture and all the various things in space that we can't explain (Black Knight Satalite) and all the other alien life stuff that goes around.

Part of me wants this to be true however since then humanity could be the one to "uplift" some other race or the be one with the original massive solar empire instead of the opposite way around so often seen in scifi.

but muh prime directive

The alien hidden underneath my bed disagrees. He just had a bad night of drinking and crashed his spaceship into the Hudson, so he's looking for directions home.

AAA is apparently 14.8 light years away...

The alien hidden underneath my bed disagrees. He just had a bad night of drinking and crashed his spaceship into the Hudson, so he's looking for directions home.

AAA is apparently 14.8 light years away...

did he find directions home under your bed?

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did he find directions home under your bed?

He's hiding from the cops.

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He's hiding from the cops.

He figured out earth life quick enough.

Step 1: Eat
Step 2: Drink
Step 3: Hide from the cops