Cosmic Horror

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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

the capability to transit intergalactic distances in an amount of time that would make them a threat to us

I would say that amount of time is anything less than the remaining lifespan of the universe, if we are in this for the long haul. Even with the speed of light as the limit, it's still something to worry about that we could build a thriving civilization for 20 million years which then is wiped out because that's how long it took for them to get here after they saw us and we were doomed from the beginning.