Like, we’re destroying the one place we know is a sure bet on where we can prosper if we keep it healthy, but instead the world’s richest man is trying to expand to other planets while this one’s ability to sustain life is in jeopardy. IMO that makes us potentially a very stupid species compared to a species that doesn’t really care about meeting other aliens because they value the life on their own planet far more than we do.
We’re talking about nearly infinite planets, but also an infinite timeline, so while life, even life very similar to ours is likely among those numbers, that it exists at the same time as us and close enough to make contact is just very unlikely unless they are technologically advanced way beyond us and have overcome those factors, in which case they surely could make contact, but seeing the apex predators of this planet behave the way we do, they’d likely feel like we’re too far below their intelligence and keep their distance, especially with the fucking morons we keep making rich and famous while calling them “leaders”.
lol come on now. There’s finite and infinite. There’s no such thing as “nearly infinite”.
There is when the finite number is so large that it’s almost irrelevant that it’s a finite number. “An incomprehensible large number”, better?
Meanwhile I believe time is actually infinite in the sense that I believe the big bang was part of a cycle of entropy and then concentration that has happened and will happen forever. It’s just a belief though, and about as spiritual as I get.