I like to do the experiment of what if we reran the life on Earth again? Would we end up with homo sapiens? And you can look at different convergent and contingent events in evolutionary history. Star Trek certainly examines those kinds of scenarios. I think there's a case to be made that early on in the evolution of intelligence, if you don't figure out how to use tools... eventually a large impact event will wipe you out. Kaboom. No thank you.

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