Posted on 10/21/2019 4:44:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be seen, with each one typically containing billions and billions of stars. Here on Earth, life not only arose, thrived, and became complex and differentiated, but intelligent, technologically advanced, and even spacefaring, to a degree. But these last advances taking us into the space and information ages are extremely recent, and space is enormous. If an alien civilization saw us, would we even appear interesting from their perspective? Tayte Taliaferro wants to know, asking:
"I was thinking about the projection of light through space. My curtain was open and I saw the stars and something from a book popped into my head. It had said that the stars we see are basically reruns. The light is from so long ago, we don't even know if the star still exists or not."
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
One in a million?
Try one in a quadrillion.
Just because there are trillions of galaxies and perhaps quadrillions of stars, does not mean that the conditions and materials and perfection in alignments would be common, nor would the events needed be necessarily common.
We are a backwater in the galaxy.
Good for only to be hunted.....
Thanks LibWhacker.
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