Jerome Wrote:If you accept the fact that the Universe is infinite, and I do think it is, we will never know if some other form of life exists because we will simply never be able to explore it all. Imagine that this planet we are on is just an atom floating around in another much larger body. The mind boggles.
I tend to perceive the Universe as almost like a great cosmic ocean: vast, beautiful, ancient, potentially deadly, and overwhelming. My mind can hardly wrap itself around the size of the Universe. It makes me feel like a tiny drop of water that hardly has any ripple effect. As far as us never knowing if there are any life forms out there, I don't know that I can say that tbh, Humans have been learning so much in the last 200 years or so, that I can't know what we might learn about potential life in our Universe.
Obviously, I don't know if there are other forms of life out there, I just have a hard time imagining we're the only ones. But yes, the Universe is so immense that I think there are things that will remain unknown to us still. Anyways, sorry for veering off-topic. I get really into these discussions haha, back to news stories.
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