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Originally Posted by Mutt
one of my favorite people and favorite pieces of writing.
'on a mote of dust, suspended in a sun beam'
to believe or assume that we are the only life in the vastness of the universe is ludicrous. we may never find it, it may never find us but somewhere in the dark are others.
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The Pale Blue Dot is a great photograph and the story behind it as well as Carl Sagan's words are very insightful. But it's another whole thing to just assume that there has to be life as we know it somewhere else even with the immense size of the universe. Even if there is life it could just be something as simple as a virus or bacteria or perhaps similar to slime mold. While that would certainly be an incredible discovery, I wouldn't start imagining a Star Trek like universe where remarkably similar to us humanoid beings can speak and reason with one another and with us.