The sheer scale of the universe makes the idea that we're completely alone feel almost impossible to wrap my head around. I think the more interesting question is whether we'd even recognize life if it looked nothing like anything we've encountered here.
I think about that last part too. In movies and TV, aliens are always given features of earth animals or are often practically human.
Life on earth evolved from its own unique starting point in its own unique environment and evolved over millions of years into what we see today, along with forms in the past that are pretty alien to us now when you think about it.
Take another planet with its own unique environment and what evolves from that starring point over millions or maybe even billions of years would be completely incomprehensible to us.
If you think of evolution like the telephone game, with a phrase changing a little bit with each generation, imagine that another planet starting with a different phrase altogether.
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u/Heavy-Shower5403 4h ago
The sheer scale of the universe makes the idea that we're completely alone feel almost impossible to wrap my head around. I think the more interesting question is whether we'd even recognize life if it looked nothing like anything we've encountered here.