Looked interesting, a shame about the paywall...

Is this that thing where you have no interest in photoshop, but you are actually just searching for AOC all-round Reddit because your terrified by brown people and women and need to troll?

Maybe, but, drones are a thing, so is data storage, space folding is a theory and self replication is possible. At some point in the future, trillions of self replicating probes traversing the galactic mega clusters giving us live updates on what's going on in the universe.

But that's just form the merger minds of the early 21 centaury, who knows what ideas are to come.

Depends on how we look at it. There was a time ships always stuck to the coast line because the ocean was too vast and dangerous. Modern ships just sail right over the waves. Deserts use to be impassable, now we just fly over them.

The universe is going to get a lot smaller when we have billions of self replicating space folding probes traversing the galactic mega clusters.

Depends, our concept of intelligence is extremely narrow, really we just base it on how good we are with tools and communication. There could be life out there that developed a completely different form of consciousness that we couldn't even recognize as life or intelligent.

200 Years it took months to contact someone on the other side of the world, now its seconds. We also have the full array of all known human knowledge available to us on the screens were looking at right now.

Wonder what communication is going to look like in 2323 :)

There's a theory that says that life didn't even start on earth.

We found a bacteria that can survive being completely frozen, and can survive extremely high temperatures and high levels of radiation. We've also found Mars rock that may have contained microscopic bacteria fossils on Earth. Basically there's a good chance that the universe is filled with meteorites full of single-celled organisms are just waiting to crash some sort of planetary body where they can start dividing again.

3 billion years ago one of those meteorites hit Earth and that's why we're all here right now.