It's existed 200k years, 500 if you really want to push it

We can only hope

That's nothing

I know right, like, an asteroid could hit or just whatever

like it's so weird to think about everything that lead up to now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcmnowjfrQ

the whole universe created to lead up to this one moment, right now

my theme song

it;s kind of surreal

Turns out thinking is a bad call evolution wise

And we are just too stubborn to die

Life is precious. Enjoy it while you can, the only universal constant across all cultures is death

or it could be the good one

No joke we have been almost wiped out 3 times already

I know right

Sentience is a double edged sword

The power to give you everything you want often has the power to take it all away

We are very not robust

How do you guys feel about the whole “humans are space orcs” type thing?

Our brains require so much damn fuel

Such a bizzarre thing, we have nuclear power to give us power for millions of years, but it could also be the end of us

Eh I think humans will end up being like humans and not orcs

I think if there are other sapient life forms

They were on a simmilar path to us

Every advanced species that rose to the top would have to have been warlike on their own planets to get to their current point, with the U.S. for example inventing much of the world's technology in the last 100 years, in part due to wars, be it nuclear power, computers, the internet, radio, penicillin or whatever

Pursuit predators need Dem big brains

Any alien species that rose to the top was problably just as if not more warlike than us, so they'd problably see us as about even

A plant doesn't need to think

Nor does a rushdown hunter

You misunderstand, it doesn’t literally posit that humans will become akin to space orcs.

It’s saying that we’re just so goddamn tough in the dumbest of ways that we are akin to many fantasy and sci-fi interpretations of orcs or orc-like creatures.
We’re a lot tougher than our feeble bodies let off.

Nor a brawler

Aliens wouldn't see us as being all that different from their own histories and us as being some kind of inferiors or whatever, I mean some might, but any with intelligence will see us as the humansz

I'm aware @Gespa

I'm explaining why I think most aliens would be quite like us

Was more directed towards @everybodydothatdinosaur

Well humans are not that tuff sadly, if we were sea sponges that would be cool

one little nick and we bleed out, can't even grow limbs back

What do you mean? We’re crazy tough.

pssft a chimp can grow back organs better than us, a bear can

oh we are crazy, but wouldn't that make us more like the imperial guard

The imperial guard has a positive k/d against almost every foe it faces