Here's something I think about sometimes....

[conuly]

If there's life on Earth, it seems fair to say there may be life elsewhere.

So, if there's another planet with life, they might also have sentient people and societies and whatnot, right? (And, lemme tell you, all these news stories in these past years about seeing planets outside of our solar system - we're living in a sci-fi age. It's a bit frightening, isn't it?)

So, these other societies... are they making the same mistakes we are (and often seem to keep making over and over again), or entirely different and novel mistakes (at least to us - betcha they make their mistakes over and over again too)?

And if they're making entirely different mistakes, based presumably on their evolutionary history (well, I can't think of any other reason for people to mistakes at all, other than that at one point it made sense!) or possibly the whim of their creator(s)... what might those mistakes consist of?

How many ways are there for a society/species to fuck everything up entirely, anyway?

I don't know, but I'd sure like to.

Comments

[conuly]

If I recall correctly, weren't there originally aliens, but the robots did some fancy shenanigans and moved us all to a universe without aliens on the theory that this was safest?

But I do love the list :)

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Maybe in one of his books. I've only read I, Robot and the Foundation series.