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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

assuming the universe wasn't as hostile to life as it really was, they probably reached a major bottleneck in development where there wasn't much more to discover cause speed of causality can't be broken, negative energy can't be figured out, or they deleted themselves by war/pollution