otherness of what
may have happened millions of
years ago come gone
Adapted from the quote of Geoffrey Rush where he says:
I’m just completely obsessed by the otherness of what’s out there. Everyone says one day they’ll suddenly go: “There’s been definite communication with beings or creatures or overdeveloped insects that went into a different direction. They’re making contact with us.” The magnitude of it all! But that may not even happen. It may have happened millions of years ago and come and gone.
In the article, ‘Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’ by Catherine Shoard on March 27, 2025.
I’m just completely obsessed by the otherness of what’s out there.
Everyone says one day they’ll suddenly go: “There’s been definite communication with beings or creatures or overdeveloped insects that went into a different direction. They’re making contact with us.”
The magnitude of it all!
But that may not even happen.
It may have happened millions of years ago and come and gone.
As Mr. Fermi would ask, “Where are the von Neumann machines?”
Which pointed folks in the direction that if there WAS intelligent life in the universe, why had they not developed the type of machines predicted by John von Neumann and that those machines should have been here by now.
According to one website, “A Von Neumann Machine is defined as a computer system that follows the von Neumann architecture, characterized by a centralized control unit, primary memory for storing instructions and data, an arithmetic and logic unit for operations, and a register bank for storing intermediate results.”
In other word, they built, regenerated and sustained themselves, making them the perfect means of space travel.
Since they didn’t show, they hadn’t been built.
Since they hadn’t been built, there was no intelligent life.
Then again, perhaps as Mr. Rush puts it, it may have happened millions of years ago and come and gone.
Or maybe, the fact that they have been to Earth and leave us alone proves just how intelligent the life forms out there really are.
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