Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

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Some naive optimistic part of me wants to believe in the star trek future where, upon discovering life outside of our bubble, humanity will put aside greed and hate.
What is probably more likely is the star trek future where humanity has apocalyptic eugenics wars and nuclear armageddon before it shuns capital.
- the xeelee saga. where humanity eventually genocides/conquers every comparable-level civilization and then whips itself up into a murderous hysteria against the xeelee, a species so ascended they have fucking conquered time. the only thing they fear is dark matter creatures, cos you cant fight them.
  well, the xeelee eventually notice humanity making war on them, go "HUH?! what? why?" and wipe them all out (except for a small remnant they put in a special built reservation/prison. and then they help them get out of the dying universe into a new one).
  humanity never ends up improving.
  
  All I know about Xeelee is Photino Birds are scary as hell
- We won't be able to progress meaningfully as a species until we achieve global communism. These efforts are planetary and generational in scale and require cooperation, not competition
- Humans are space orcs
  
  At least space orcs have more fun with it - instead of "WE PAINTED DA SHIPZ RED TO GO FASTA" we have fuckin Elon in charge of space exploration
  
  "WE MAKE SHIPS LOOK LIKE BENIZ. YA GET IT? BENIZ! HAR HAR HAR" - Warboss Bezos
- Planet covered in photosynthetic organisms? There would be a lot of oil we can strip mine from there.

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