“How does humanity exist?” YouTube rocket scientist Scott Manley asks me at EVE Fanfest. “And billions of years from now, what’s gonna happen? Sure, we can imagine humans moving from Earth to other planets, but eventually, the sun’s gonna burn out. We could fly to other stars and survive longer, but those stars, as far as we know, burn out in a trillion years. What next?”
Maybe we’re just part of a complex digestive tract, incomprehensible to us in the same way that we are to a microscopic organism, I reply.
