Two-step plan for becoming the only species in the multiverse.
Art installation by Lori Hershberger.
We’ve already got cracking on this, really. Well done … Earth. Let’s see what we can do with the rest of the Milky Way, and maybe Intergalactic Viceroy Hawking* will okay a mission to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
You know. Just to see what’s what over there with those guys. Kick the tires, shoot the breeze, strip mine a couple of planets and turn them in to dumps.
*You didn’t actually think he was human, did you? Tell me you didn’t buy that hype.
The Thought Experiment 