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200 billion trillion stars in the universe.

13.7 billion years old, with a window of detection of about 1,000,000 years (evolution to self-extermination).

Maybe I'm just a dumb human, but I really don't see why a supergenius race would invest the resources in scouring the universe. Unless it was their manifest destiny. In my head a narrative to address this crosses from sci-fi into fantasy.




“Because it is there”




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