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What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America, like the whole Galaxy knows we're here but they've agreed not to contact us until we figure it out for ourselves? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think that makes sense. Most likely scenario is that we’re just kind of average all around. Just another one of millions, trillions, uncountable numbers of species that have done the same and eventually perished.

We’re probably not special in any way, and just another ant in a colony of ants.