The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity
This is a stupid question. Any world we discover that doesn&#x27;t harbor intelligent life we would in all surity dismiss as a world that never will. See Mars, for instance.<p>OTOH, any world that <i>was</i> inhabited by aliens would, besides within a very narrow time frame, either have advanced to a state where their world would, for sure, be unrecognizable by us, or have destroyed themselves to such an extent that we would never have known they were there.<p>Typically human hubris, why can&#x27;t we recognize the most logical explanation for so much dark matter? The wreckage and debris of a great alien war. Face it humanity, you&#x27;re not the pinnacle of intelligence that you think, but, frankly the figurative apes throwing stones at each other after a (galactic version of) World War III.