Thanks for the probability assessments. What is missing are supporting arguments. What you think is relatively clear—but why you think it is not.
...and what’s the deal with mentioning a “sense of humour”? What has that to do with whether a civilization is complex and interesting? Whether our distant descendants value a sense of humour or not seems like an irrelevance to me. I am more concerned with whether they “make it” or not—factors affecting whether our descendants outlast the exploding sun—or whether the seed of human civilisation is obliterated forever.
Thanks for the probability assessments. What is missing are supporting arguments. What you think is relatively clear—but why you think it is not.
...and what’s the deal with mentioning a “sense of humour”? What has that to do with whether a civilization is complex and interesting? Whether our distant descendants value a sense of humour or not seems like an irrelevance to me. I am more concerned with whether they “make it” or not—factors affecting whether our descendants outlast the exploding sun—or whether the seed of human civilisation is obliterated forever.