Spoiler Use the above picture to tell us where you live. :Trollestia: That big glowing thing in the middle isn't even our sun. Our sun is just a tiny little dot somewhere on that picture. Then you have to imagine that Earth is only a small dot compared to the sun. Then imagine that your house isn't even a dot on the map of our planet. Then try to figure out how tiny you are compared to the above picture Spoiler: Maybe this will help. (Just don't mind the aliens at the end :P) [video=youtube;EF6aEFFMxjU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6aEFFMxjU[/video] And THEN, you start thinking. What if there's another glowing dot in there somewhere with planets floating around it, with life on them just like here? I truthfully believe that we can't possibly be the only ones lucky enough to have a planet capable of creating and sustaining life. Don't get me wrong, i don't believe in little grey men with big heads and black eyes carrying laser guns and flying around in big round spaceships. But i do believe there are planets very similar to ours in terms of enviroment. In fact, there's one very close by. If you were lucky enough, you were able to see it in broad daylight today. According to scientists, Venus is very similar to what Earth used to be like billions of years ago. They also theorized that Mars used to be much like Earth. Is your mind blown yet?
I knew that. And I agree, there is likely to be life on other planets. Intelligent is debatable. But life, almost certainly.
I sometimes think this. We think that we humans are so important, yet we are nothing compared to the Earth, which is nothing compared to the Sun, which is nothing compared to our galaxy. And your picture is just one galaxy. There are billions of galaxies in the universe. There must be other forms of life too. We'll probably never meet them but it's almost impossible for us to be the only form of life in the universe.
To be honest, thinking about the size of one galaxy, I'm amazed that they've even managed to find out the shape of one galaxy.
Oh, yes, astrology and such. They have...stuff to figure out...stuff like that. Yup. I learned about it somewhere, but don't ask me to repeat any of it, cause I don't remember.
Technically, they can't possibly know. Every picture of a galaxy you find is still just a theory. A potentially very correct theory, but still just a theory. Unless they manage to send a probe out far enough to take a picture, it'll never be proven. (and i doubt they'll ever manage to pull that off)
Astrology or astronomy? Astronomy is the study of celestial objects whilst astrology is stuff like horoscopes. Considering the Milky Way is 100000 light years in diamater, sending out a probe far enough to fit it all in in one picture is practically impossible.
once we harness wormholes, then we may be getting somewhere...otherwise we are stranded until they start using those hexagon structures to create tubes that we can send vacuum capsules through.
I know that there's just no way we're the only life in the universe, the odds of that are impractical. Here's to hoping we find something before our generation ends!
But what if it's just the alien equivalent of rats? I highly doubt any life in the universe is intelligent like us. There may be life, but not human-like life.
This is us in relation to our sun This is our sun in relation to a larger star named VY Canis Majoris: These are just stars, though. Our galaxy alone is estimated to have 100 billion stars in it. And there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe. Moreover, the size of these immense structures is small compared to the vast amounts of space between objects in the universe. We aren't even microbes on a cosmic scale. We're nothing.
