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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
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.
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Who knows, anything is possible. To me it's human conceit that we on this mote of dust in a vast universe are the only intelligent beings in it because we can't see or hear them and nothing in our current understanding of the cosmos gives us any evidence to assume it exists.
It seems as if the greatest physicists of our day think that String Theory while unable to be proven correct today or maybe ever is the answer. Which means our universe is just one of many. 10,000 years from now maybe humans will somehow travel to or communicate with other universes. It's all mind boggling.
What pisses me off about life isn't so much that we live such short lives, i just want to come back for one day every 100 years to find out what happened. I read one of Sagan's interviews, I believe it was done while he was dying of cancer, he was not afraid of dying, didn't believe in an afterlife but his sadness was in not being able to know how the story ends. That's how I feel.
I do believe that humans are one day going to be immortal in some fashion.