"Just because I do not perceive it, does not mean that it does not exist"

[bronxiteforever]

18. Entertaining this idea is fun PCIntern.

It is possible that we are not alone but the great silence and the theory of the great filter haunt me.
Intelligence seems far from inevitable given our history. And then there is the enormous distance between stars, the speed of light and the time required for said travel.

To your point there are many opportunities for life in the numbers of galaxies and star systems.

I guess one thing we strongly agree on is that we don’t know much. I am blown away by our biology and that our brand of human lived with Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals), Homo sapiens idaltu,
Denisovans (Homo sapiens) , Homo heidelbergensis and Homo floresiensis. If you told me as a kid in the 1960s that we would know that humans are comprised of the genes of extinct human species, I would have believed that you were mad.

One thing is for sure, if we don’t destroy ourselves the universe will provide us with endless beauty and knowledge.