Aliens. · 4:36am Mar 26th, 2015
Mostly talking literature here, there's a lot of tropes for them, and I do mean a lot, but there's one concept I do really, really love, but never really see. The idea that there's totally intelligent life out there, it's just that, the universe in and of itself, is so unfit for biological life that, regardless of intelligence, they all go extinct for one reason or another.
What I'm interested in seeing, is a story about finding alien life on other planets, or rather, the traces of life, puzzling over the remains of their cities, ships, and planets, while the inevitability of human extinction hangs overhead as a constant reminder of the futility of it all.
Or maybe it would be a nice story for a ponyfic. There's enough "Twilight becomes an astronaut" fics for it. What do you guys think? Know of any stories like that?
Hunh... Could be interesting. P'raps I'd try something like that with my story
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Danke!~
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I just watched an episode of Vsauce that discussed the same exact thing. Good old Fermi paradox.
But no, "super awesum alien invasion" stories are just so much more exciting, aren't they?
2911655 Totally.