quarantine 'em

do you ever wonder about the human species that's going to come after ours, what they're going to think about our ruins how they're going to react when they realise what all the satellite dishes were pointed at

will we wipe ourselves totally and permanently out, clearing the slate for some other intelligent species to evolve, or will there be rising and falling tides of human existence for thousands or millions of years, and will we be able to track time over that span

there's a kind of anthropic principle here: what are the odds that of all the intelligent civilisations to rule Earth, we were the first? not the tenth or hundredth?

is it pure chance that we're the first, a one in a hundred chance? or is it that there is only ever one, at most

do you ever worry that future centuries despise this one for what we took from them and left them with