BlueMoonAcrossThePond
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Intelligent life evolving on earth is miraculous - for many, many, many reasons.
And yet... are we earthlings alone - the sole life forms (or intelligent life forms) - in all the universe?
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For me, this seems to be a nearly impossible proposition.
The elements necessary for life as we know it - are widespread in our own solar system. Might Mars, for example, once have harbored life?
And what about life deep in moon oceans here in our solar system - e.g., Europa? Or maybe under an alien atmosphere such as Titan?
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And however miraculous life is on earth - are conditions for life on earth so astronomically improbable that the entire 13+ billion light years of observable space does not harbor at least one other planet blessed with such miraculous fortune?
And too? Is the universe, in fact infinite - that the universe continues much as we see it at infinitum, forever and ever, without bound - in spite of the fact that the speed of light and the age of the universe combine to limit our view to a subset of this infinity?
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For me - aliens - and in fact intelligent aliens - almost certainly exist.
And yet... are we earthlings alone - the sole life forms (or intelligent life forms) - in all the universe?
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For me, this seems to be a nearly impossible proposition.
The elements necessary for life as we know it - are widespread in our own solar system. Might Mars, for example, once have harbored life?
And what about life deep in moon oceans here in our solar system - e.g., Europa? Or maybe under an alien atmosphere such as Titan?
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And however miraculous life is on earth - are conditions for life on earth so astronomically improbable that the entire 13+ billion light years of observable space does not harbor at least one other planet blessed with such miraculous fortune?
And too? Is the universe, in fact infinite - that the universe continues much as we see it at infinitum, forever and ever, without bound - in spite of the fact that the speed of light and the age of the universe combine to limit our view to a subset of this infinity?
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For me - aliens - and in fact intelligent aliens - almost certainly exist.