An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

So I was browsing Wikipedia the other day in class instead of working on my paper and I stumbled across this awesome little article here.  It's about the Fermi paradox, which is basically asking the question about why human beings haven't discovered any form or intelligent life but ourrselves in the universe.  Now, being the imaginative guy that I am, I was trying to think of all kinds of reasons of why this might be.  Everything that I could think of was touched on in the article, but I'd almost like the real reason to be that we are the first intelligent species in the entire universe.  Out of all of the possible options out there, I think that one has the strongest pull on me.

Think about it, really think about it.  What if we are the original race?  I mean, most mythologies, both real and imagned, had a race of beings that created or gradually become every other intelligent race in the universe.  What if we are that race?  Think of the incredible power and responsibilty that title would bring.  Everything that we do could potentially be discovered and studied by species to come long after us.  Think of what they could glean from out lives, from out advancements, from our failures.  I think that if we knew that we were the first intelligent beings in the universe, everything would change about how we live.

Imagine it, really try your best to image what a universe full of nothing but humans would be like.  I like to believe it's different from Battlestar Galactica, but hey, maybe it's how some of you see it.  Humans could literally colonize every single planet in the entire universe if we really wanted to.  We may create new life forms, to test and expirment with evolution, much as you can do with Spore.  By the time any new intelligent race emerged, humans as we are now would be totally different.  We could have take on some new form, maybe one that doesn't rely on the physical form at all but merely on some mental form.  Maybe we won't be here at all, having passed away from the universe due to some unforeseen consequence of our own expirmenting.

If we really at the first being to be intelligent in all the universe, I think it would be rather unnerving.  Right now on our own planet, we have a hard enough time just coping with one another.  How are we to cope with a solar system or a galaxy or a universe of ourselves?  We would have to work out a lot of major problems with ourselves before we could do anything great on that galactic scale. 

Still, it's a lot to think about.  I think I'm going to go develop this idea a bit more, then commit it to writing in one of my many journals and books laying around.

Peace Out.