{"id":1140737,"date":"2023-05-18T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1140737"},"modified":"2023-05-18T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:00:24","slug":"were-effectively-alone-in-the-universe-and-thats-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1140737","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re effectively alone in the Universe, and that\u2019s OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GettyImages-821251326-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Silhouette of a man looking at the Milky Way Stars shining above the Grand Canyon of Thailand (Sam Phan Bok)\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GettyImages-821251326-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1707\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Suchart Kuathan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering.<\/p>\n<p>But that solitude is not a curse. The great expanse of the empty heavens above us does not carry with it an impossible burden of loneliness. It begets a freedom\u2014a freedom to explore, to be curious, to wonder, to expand.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe is ours for the taking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1939849#p3\">Read 37 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1939849&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1939849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We\u2019re effectively alone in the Universe, and that\u2019s OK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Suchart Kuathan\/Getty Images) Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering. But that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1140737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1140737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}