For me, the pain of ignorance outweighs all of the pain and misery that knowledge* could ever bring. Knowing I don't want to know does nothing to reduce the pain of knowing I don't know something.
Proud to be human, where my 100m tall atomic lizards at? EDIT: I posted that when the lizard thing was said before i saw the rest of it.... now that i have heard the rest of that story and the Rule 34 stuff... im even more proud to be human
Rewatched this and gotta say my favorite quote is: they renamed the laws of physics to "those bullshit suggestions that don't seem to apply to those space lemur fuckers anyways." Really there was a ceremony and everything!
Just don't look too closely at those galaxies... they aren't made of stars anymore. Human superweapons are a terrible thing... a terrible, terrible, thing... that no one can stop looking at once it has been sighted.
Second story - sounds like the ambassador did not know about drag racing/hot rod culture, or the desire to drive a car at supersonic speeds (and it has been done), or even the various forms of pumpkin chunkin'. After all we are the ones who decided to attach a belt and engine to a Gatling gun to see what would happen (the 6,000 rpm gun is what we got).
Might be a good idea for the aliens to just arbitrarily "lose" a few sectors now and then. Just erase them from all records and cut them off for a few centuries to build up enough mystique to become interesting again so we all treat it like something new to explore. Humans will fall for rediscovering "Space-Atlantis" every time!
@ 4:19 I'm just guessing but I'm thinking I'm from universe 976kdd94. Just from too early in our history to have witnessed all that. @ end of video - We love being on the frontier. Making things safe for those who follow us is something we love to do. Beware however, when that stops, we start to turn against ourselves and those who live with us. Not because we want to. It is our instinct to test ourselves against the strongest thing we know when the unknown is no longer available. There are safe ways to do that, but in my experience, the unsafe ways are most likely to be explored first.
