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Originally Posted by Bassnut
"Why don't we set off millions of iron nickel vessels with very primitive bacteria that could survive a long journey and radiation to randomly seed the Galaxy."
Wha..... umm, and why would you BOTHER ?  |
I could think of many reasons why you'd bother doing that...too many, in fact. But I'll give one good reason...what if life was scarce in this universe, in any universe. But the places where life could flourish were many. Why not identify those places capable of supporting life and then seed our kind there. Spread life throughout the universe and let it evolve. But keep an eye on proceedings. If we were the only truly intelligent and technologically advanced species in this particular universe, then we would be duty bound so to speak to be its caretakers. The same could be said for any such species in any particular universe.
The point being is this...even if life was super abundant and we were the least advanced society of the lot, we should still treat the universe with the same reverence as if it was in the condition I previously talked about.