> any intelligent life that was somehow capable of interstellar travel there isn't such a thing because the distances are too vast, even at 99% the speed of light. there is a workaround however. von neumann probes almost certainly infest the galaxy, since they are not living things, are ai-powered, can comfortably move at sublight speeds for eons without caring about the passage of time, can self-replicate, and can build machinery that builds machinery until they have an incubator that can 3d print a living thing. so you could get your brain and genes copied into a data set, with instructions for the probe to print you and wake you up as soon as possible. then you never have to make the impossible journey. you die of old age if you're american, or of niggers if you're british, and instantly wake up 100,000 years later in an alien system at the exact age you were when you copied yourself, with no memory of everything that happened after that point. > would either completely ignore us i don't think so. there's a few reasons they wouldn't. for starters, even if they don't particularly care about biospheres, which they probably would considering the rarity of life, they would still have probes in this system mining asteroids to build more probes and gather fuels. those probes would probably set up a permanent base here, because everything about this system is highly unique compared to the thousands of exoplanet star systems we've found. the order of planet types is rare, uranus is flipped on its side, and there's an ocean planet with life. they would have a keen interest in this system purely based on its scientific value as an extremely rare system. and that would probably include interest in learning about the biosphere and sending that data to relay probes that store it somewhere. for these ayys, finding even a microbial biosphere would be of incredible interest because of its rarity, so naturally they would pay attention to the complex life as well.
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