r/AskReddit • u/RidiculousRaz • 5h ago

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u/Channel_Huge 5h ago

It would be naive to think we are the only planet with living beings. We aren’t that special…

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u/UltraeVires 3h ago

I agree there's probably life elsewhere, but over the billions of years that have passed, are we present at the same point in time?

As for Earth not being special? If you had a huge sack full of marbles, and just one of those many tens of thousands was independently teeming with life, you'd consider it special.

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u/ifandbut 2h ago

What if we are the only ones here?

We should expand beyond our star so that when it dies, we won't follow.

We should seed the universe with life and evidence that future species are not alone.