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Space is a big place with an estimated 400 billion stars our own galaxy alone and there are estimated to be more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe each containing between 10 million and a trillion stars, lets not even talk about planets.

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What do you think about the possibility of life elsewhere?

The Drake Equation
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I enjoy staring into the void; not what’s contained within gravity’s grasp, but that which is unseen: the darkness, the emptiness; all that’s mostly ignored….

I don’t care about “life” elsewhere, I care for the “nothing”; that’s beautiful to me.

Isn't it crazy? Stars form solar systems, which form galaxies, which from groups, which form clusters, which form superclusters, of which there are thousands, and the distance between them is boggling. The Universe is insanely huge, and we'll never be able to access more than an infinitely small area around our planet. It seems entirely likely to me that there are millions of other planets with life, all looking out at the night sky and seeing our local group as a tiny point of light. It's quite likely that within our own galaxy, which is a mote of dust in the Universe, there are dozens of other planets with life.

Being humans, we only really think in terms of the Earth, which is like a virus in a bacterium in our gut thinking he's seeing the world. I don't know why people need God in order to define unfathomable truths, as the Universe itself is an embarassment of awe and wonder.

It would be a mathematical miracle if we were the only life in the universe.

So for people to think we are alone means a lot of wishful thinking.

For one, there're the Vogons.

Yes it is big. Although we have no real exobiology to base my guess on - I will so guess yes on life.

Other than aspies, is there intelligent life on Earth?

I've come up with a fictional star called Buline, around which orbits a planet called Inithial, one of three habitable planets in that Solar System. Fictional is convenient for me, because I can place it close enough to be seen from Earth, yet way too far away for and Earth satellite to reach in any reasonable amount of time to explore it.

Sadly, when the (intelligent) species on the planets orbiting around Buline inhabiting planet discover Earth and land on it, Buline turn into a Red Giant and causes a planet-wide heat wave, killing all the life around it, so the ones who are on Earth are technically stranded.

I'm trying to get it into Celestia. I'll put some pics up when I've got it!

Anyone seen the square nebula?

I think it'd be a terrible waste of space if there was no other life in the universe other than what's on this planet.

And for that matter, it would make the universe a much worse place if we discovered that we were the pinnacle of evolution throughout the entire cosmos. I mean, if we're the best Mother Nature could come up with, then the universe is pretty craptacular...

space is very interesting. isnt it broken up into three parts though? past present and future? isnt thats how they can look to see what happend to the universe formed? light years or something?

Yeah, well we see into the 'past' with stars a lot because it takes a certain amount of time for light to reach us and see it. A good example would if, for some reason, the Sun would just turn off, it'd take 4 minutes for the light to stop reaching Earth and for us to notice (light takes 4 minutes to get from the Sun to here).

I think Space is an incredibly dull name for such an important thing. I mean 'Space'? Yeah, I have lots of space in my wardrobe! Other examples are the ever-glorious "Moon" and the infinitely majestic 'Earth'. I'll stick to calling it Terra or Gaia.