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Why all intelligent species in the universe become spacefaring.. - Magical Realist - Apr 1, 2026
"Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring—not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. And once you’re out there in space for centuries and millennia, moving little worlds around and engineering planets, your species has been pried loose from its cradle. If they exist, many other civilizations will eventually venture far from home."--Carl Sagan ; Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future In Space
It seems inevitable to me, if we even manage to survive our planetary impacts. Alas, the turmoil and suffering we will have to go thru adapting bodies built over 6 million years for earthbound living to the disorienting void of omnidirectional and perpetually nocturnal space! Will we have long since stripped ourselves of these fleshy earth suits, assuming perhaps some more airy and starlike form?