crickets mistaken for ships exploring our universe

 

someday future civilizations, perhaps even an extension of our own, will receive signals we have been producing since the advent of radio and television. perhaps they will find the earth even if we have long since passed on. they may even fish out our exploratory spacecraft from deep space like a fisherman pulling up a boot from the bottom of a lake. one thing is for certain though: in the past century we have produced the means to communicate with extrasolar beings. barring a major catastrophy, we will continue to expand our influence by colonizing other rocks in our solar system. this action will provide a diversification of our living space and increase the chances of current human intelligence to survive. our bodies, technology, and direction will evolve until we are able to expand beyond our own solar system. perhaps to nearby stars with habitable planets, perhaps we will master space travel to the point of whole societies existing on spacecraft. exploration of our galaxy would likely follow. by then we may have the means to skip to other galaxies or regions of the universe by exploiting the space-time continum. if not, the physical leap to travel inter-galactically would be quite something to behold. it's all relative as the saying goes. if we are able to traverse our own galaxy with ease then moving between galaxies would not be so far off. then, of course our domain would be local clusters of galaxies until those became commonplace. superclusters beyond that. by then the whole notion of existence would most likely be something unfathomable by our human brains. at one point, crossing the ocean on earth seemed an impossibly insane idea. even at our basic level and short existence as sentient beings we have created an enormous amount of information. the evolution of our intelligence is most remarkable and even more remarkable is the extremely small slice we experience in one lifetime compared to this evolution. even more remarkable is how that slice is simply the smallest of specks on the timescale of our universe.