Substack: You're in the Outside World?
Discover what is beyond your boundary
Excerpts from Document #OW0
Interviewer: Good morning, sir.
Scientist: Don’t say that to me. Such mundane and common greetings never get accustomed to me.
Interviewer: Are you the one who hides inside his safe zone?
Scientist: I said that they don’t get accustomed to me, not that I don’t get accustomed to them. There’s a difference.
Interviewer: Sorr…I mean let’s get into the topic. Do you believe that extraterrestrial life exists?
Scientist: Life? You have to be more specific than that. For us scientists, this word is defined with 7 characteristics, inculcated by the earliest biologist. However, there are things–no–beings that exceed that definition, breaking the boundary between the living and the non-living.
Interviewer: I would like to ask about a certain situation: intelligent civilization. For years of development and discovery, we humans haven’t found any such as ours. Can you explain why?
Scientist: Enrico Fermi had the same question. That’s why we have the Fermi paradox. I believe that they’re real and currently coexisting with us humans in the universe.
Interviewer: That’s a profound answer, sir. How do you know?
Scientist: You know how?
Interviewer: Why haven’t we found any intelligent life?
Scientist: I refuse to answer.
Interviewer: It’s a matter of curiosity.
Scientist: Doesn’t matter.
Interviewer: I’m afraid that you have to answer, sir.
Scientist: Is it really a problem? We have solved the most catastrophic problems from overpopulation to climate change. What’s the need in going outside?
Interviewer: We need to go because we want to, sir.
SLASH!!
Scientist: You…
Interviewer: I’m sorry, sir, but I don’t have much time.
Scientist: I will never answer.
Interviewer: Very well. Whether you will tell us or not, we will go out there, and there’s nothing that can stop us.
Interesting