Kays Planet Forum Instant

Below the post, the "New Reply" counter ticked upward. The forum hummed with the electric energy of minds grappling with the idea that humanity’s greatest achievement wasn't the splitting of the atom or the invention of the internet, but simply the accident of being complex cells.

If this leap is a "hard step"—an improbable biological hurdle with a low probability of occurring—then most life-bearing planets in the universe are likely stuck in a stagnant sludge of simple bacteria. They never get the machinery to build complexity, and thus, never build telescopes. kays planet forum