Is there life in the universe?

July 10, 2009 annora
Tags: alien, extra-terrestrial, philosophy, random thought, universe

Every time I hear someone ask that question, I just want to slap them. Of course there’s life in the universe. We can’t even begin to wrap our minds around the endless enormity that is the universe. The sheer amount of galaxies and star systems just around us is enough to make your brain hurt, let alone the rest of the universe.

It never ceases to amaze me how human beings from all walks of life (scientists, religious fanatics, professors, etc) endlessly debate this, as if it was ever really a question. Are we so proud, so arrogant that we can truly believe we are the only advanced species in the entire universe? We who threaten to kill our own planet, threaten to make ourselves extinct regularly, and have only begun to scratch the surface of space travel? Can we even be called intelligent life ourselves?

In the untold vastness that is our universe, who knows how many different species of sentient beings there are? Who knows what kind of technology is out there? I fear we may never know. Human nature is an ugly thing, and while we have proven to be resilient, there’s no guarantee we won’t end up blowing ourselves up for good.

We need more money put into different energy research, our space programs need a serious rebooting, and we need to stop these ridiculous notions of “superior races.” We’re all one species in the end, our biological make-up is the same.

That’s just my random thought of the day.