Satirical dry comments partner with science for an article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2016/08/15/are-earth-humans-the-aliens-early-to-the-universes-life-party/#2e17d2387113

While some theories might have us at the end of the universe’s life party, this suggests we’re at the very beginning and occupies the entertaining possibility we’re the first organic life to occupy this level of development; and that discovering alien life and interacting with it will likely be our mission; intended or not.

The formal report – with Forbes jokes removed – is [url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08448v1.pdf]here[/url] and one of the points raised is that we currently live in the 0.14% beginning stretch of the universes’ probable trillion-year life-span. We have another 99.86% of the universe’s life to go. There’s some other super-fancy math that I’m not going to pretend to know completely, so if you think you can understand it then feel free to read and regurgitate.


Have fun.