Originally posted by: Nanner Split
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this as its introduction:
Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how mind-bogglingly huge it is. I mean you may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space! Listen!.................and so on and so forth.
Seriously, considering how ridiculously huge the universe is, it seems a bit preposterous that only one tiny little planet within the entirety of it would have life on it. Unless this is just a really, REALLY early stage in the Universe's lifespan, where this planet was just a starting point and our population is eventually meant to settle the entire expanses of the universe..... but that's highly unlikely.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this as its introduction:
Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how mind-bogglingly huge it is. I mean you may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space! Listen!.................and so on and so forth.
Seriously, considering how ridiculously huge the universe is, it seems a bit preposterous that only one tiny little planet within the entirety of it would have life on it. Unless this is just a really, REALLY early stage in the Universe's lifespan, where this planet was just a starting point and our population is eventually meant to settle the entire expanses of the universe..... but that's highly unlikely.
Yeah, but it's kind of a bunk argument.
"It's so BIG, so there MUST be something else out there."
Our solar system is big in itself, and there's nothing living there aside from us. Doesn't mean there's nothing, of course, but it doesn't prove there's something there either. Just show me the aliens.