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Speaker 1: The more we humans look out into the sky, the

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Speaker 1: more it becomes apparent that there is nothing looking back

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Speaker 1: at us. We seem to be utterly alone. This is,

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Speaker 1: to say the least very weird. Our universe is big

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Speaker 1: enough and old enough that it should be teeming with life.

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Speaker 1: Lots of people have come up with answers. Perhaps the

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Speaker 1: aliens are hiding from something we don't know about, or

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Speaker 1: maybe we're being kept in a galactic zoo without our knowledge.

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Speaker 1: But maybe the simplest answer is the right one in

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Speaker 1: this case. Perhaps we humans really are the only intelligent

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Speaker 1: life in the universe. What if the only reason we

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Speaker 1: humans are alive is because of a series of flukes

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Speaker 1: and coincidences so improbable that they will never be repeated

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Speaker 1: again anywhere else. Well, that would make us pretty special,

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Speaker 1: and it would also put the entire future of intelligent

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Speaker 1: life in the universe squarely on our shoulders. One we

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Speaker 1: humans are on the eve of spreading out into the galaxy,

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Speaker 1: of freeing ourselves from the bonds of Earth. To settle

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Speaker 1: new planets and secure the future of intelligent life. All

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Speaker 1: we have to do is survived that long existential risks

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Speaker 1: are a distinctive Or maybe unique kind of risk in

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Speaker 1: that we're playing for everything. If we screw it up,

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Speaker 1: we screw it up for a large chunk of the universe.

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Speaker 1: One thing is certain is that there's a huge amount

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Speaker 1: of energy in it, and it's expanding it very question

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Speaker 1: the speed of light, and so you would have no

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Speaker 1: warning of it coming. And basically Earth will be sears

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Speaker 1: to pieces and we just don't know. So I just

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Speaker 1: don't think it's worth taking the chance. Join me. Stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know is Josh Clark for the End of

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Speaker 1: the World, a tempart podcast series that explores all the

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Speaker 1: ways humanity could come to an abrupt an untimely end. Sure,

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Speaker 1: we're all going to die someday, let's make sure it's

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Speaker 1: not on the same day. M