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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is That Exciting or Terrifying?
I don't think the perception of this utterly vast cosmos need have any deeper impact on us than just realizing that we are very small. It may make a difference, but most of us, I don't think it makes much difference. And there's a more general question, of course, about whether the human race as such is something which is very special. Or if, on the other hand, it's just one of many such species elsewhere in the universe,. or indeed existing at different times in our universe. Is that exciting or terrifying to you? Just the spans of it all, the wide, everything that lies beyond the horizon, that example doesn't even hold for Earth, so it
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