seen as a collective are not much greater intelligence in our own these kinds of ideas no but it was a boy I was thinking about these things and I thought hmm maybe it has already happened because back then I know I knew I learned from popular physics books that the structure the large-scale structure of the universe is not homogeneous and you have these clusters of galaxies and then in between there are these huge empty spaces and I thought hmm maybe they aren't really empty it's just that in the middle of that some AI civilization already has