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Heh, "a rather unceremonious exception" :) More precisely, not an exception, but it still read as "biowaste" to me.
We certainly don't believe that Earth, with its bloody history of wars, and humanity, with all the negative traits of its nature, are a rather unceremonious exception for the Cosmos, but that the vast expanses of space are populated by beings who were more perfect than us even at the dawn of their history.
Inspired by @name's topic about green little men, I finally started reading Lem's "Sum of Technology", where he presents his vision of the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.
The style is a bit heavy (perhaps a poor translation), but some parts are quite interesting.
In other words, we understand progress as movement along a line of increasing development, and the future as an era of Great and Mighty Deeds. What did a Stone Age man expect from the earthly or extraterrestrial future? - Huge, magnificently polished flints! And what could a resident of the ancient world expect on other planets? - Surely, galleys with oars a kilometer long!
:D
He also criticized the idea of paradise, but with good reason.
Planets with greater climate and geological stability than Earth (that is, those that we are inclined to consider "paradises," meaning their "suitability" for the existence of life) may in reality represent areas of homeostatic stagnation, since life evolves not thanks to a "built-in" tendency towards "progress," but only in the face of impending danger.
..разым двазым трызым рызым пята лата сигерь мата локом боком крюк за крюк из бульмы бульма урюк.. Знание некоторых закономерностей освобождает от изучения многих фактов. Мечты сбываются рано или поздно, так или иначе.
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