Why we will be alone. Speed of light limitations

How do you know it's only 24 hours relative and not like months or years. I think you're full of shit.

I don't really care what happens to us. We're subpar trash.

Also, pulsed microwave fields will be what does us in, just so you know which way it'll most likely go.

Can you name a puny island in the ocean on planet Earth that hasn't been fucked with my white people?

If aliens are out there, they are big and vast and in charge, they're not kids in the kiddy pool like us. And yet we don't see their freighters hauling goods through space. We don't see distant cities or pick up alien broadcasts. It's deathly quiet. There's NOTHING my man, and several people have been looking with a purpose for decades. We are all alone, RIGHT NOW.

Or they are pulling a very, VERY clever trick by keeping us in some sort of information bubble.

Bigger ocean, my dude. You ain't dealing with kilometers, but lightyears. Plus, they may regard us as we do uncontacted tribes: best left alone until further notice.

>Plus, they may regard us as we do uncontacted tribes: best left alone until further notice.
Try to put yourself into the tribal perspective: they may not want to fuck with us, but they're everywhere and we know they're out there. Doing something in the big unknowable world beyond the ocean. We do not know their cities but we know their visitors to our island.

if there were aliens, any significant number, we'd probably have at least the equivalent of teenagers cruising through the neighborhood. But things like crop circles are easily debunked. There's not a single serious piece of evidence that anyone has been here before us.

>We're subpar

You clearly don't understand the meaning of the word subpar, considering we are the most advanced species we currently know of by a wide fucking margin

Anyway to answer the OP, we are probably the ancient wise ones who will do all of the Prometheus shit. I mean, if it does turn out that we are apparently alone in the universe, why the fuck wouldn't we seed it with (intelligent) life? Sure maybe our creations will annhialate us, but they will have to try really fucking hard to do so.

It just sucks we were born now and not a century or two later, lucky immortal-ish fucks

What about just wierd "flyby" shit?

>Or they are pulling a very, VERY clever trick by keeping us in some sort of information bubble.

Or maybe we just haven't built the right recievers yet

I wish I had the money to cryogenic myself and gamble on the slim chance that some x amount of time after my stasis humans will have survived long enough to develop the technology to wake me without killing my brain cells.

Now that would be a trip, good morning user and welcome to 2421 would you like to know what we discovered?

>civilization would be rebooted

That seems doubtful. We have a rich literature on what happened to ancient civilizations after catastrophes destroyed large swathed of the population.

The Black Death is the most notable. Contra the "apocalypse" genre of fiction, survivors of such catastrophes are incredibly wealthy and decadent due to the excess capital lying around in the form of land, resources, artifacts, tools, and nonperishables, not to mention reduced market competition for skills.

The generations immediately following a catastrophe, while traumatized, would be sitting on an embarrassment of riches. The world economy would plausibly double ever few years as the population recovered. If and whether it hits a Malthusian wall depends on the nature of the catastrophe, but that's by no means a foregone conclusion.

The biggest losses would be skill knowledge, innovation capacity (since most economic activity would just be "catching up"), special infrastructure such as dams, and social norms (due to initial panic, trauma; i.e. forget about freedom of speech, norms against xenophobia, etc.).

Civilizations are quite durable.