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2024-01-21 08:47:35

Adam on Nostr: The enormous unlikely-hood of your own existence should give you enough pause to ...

The enormous unlikely-hood of your own existence should give you enough pause to cripple you with awe.

Not only was half of your genetic code contributed by a single sperm that made it out of 40 million to 1 billion, depending on your source ("source" works on multiple levels, here), but you're on earth. Do you have any goddamn clue how insanely rare earth is? How many things had to perfectly align for this whacky little ball of dirty iron to have the biosphere that it has? Google "the Fermi paradox" and "rare earth hypothesis."

We see no evidence of Dyson swarms.

There's probably less than one technological civilization per every 10,000 galaxies.

It's so unbelievably unlikely for you to exist that holy goddamn wonderous hell, if anything could be accurately described as a miracle, you could be.
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