You are now aware of the fact that when the entire Universe is taken into consideration, millions of species go extinct every second, and many of those species are intelligent.
Yeah, but pandas are cute and are totally worth saving because pandas are cute.The Chinese river dolphin was ugly and totally deserved to go extinct because they were ugly.
>>1271Why not simply clone pandas?
>>1274because after awhile we'll run out of fresh genetic material and all our pandas will become inbred and die.Also, pandas are jerks regardless of how cute they are
We are an anomaly in that of all the things in the universe, we are the only things that consume, reproduce and exist to do more than be inert patterns of energy.There'll be divergent species from us. They won't be us anymore. They'll grow, they'll change, some will die off. Eventually beings may be as different from us as we are from grass or flowers, though they'll still think of us as a common ancestor. And the universe still won't care, because it never did.