I think it's more we're an insane fluke. For life to exist there are so many things that have to be so exact that it may very well be possible there aren't other multi-cellular organisms out there which is actually kind of more awesome than believing there is when you think about it, given just out vast the universe is. I mean the universe is big enough that there are things out there so gigantic that they break the laws of physics. Our reality simply can't understand how big they are. Yet, what if Earth really is the only planet with life on this level. So we are something, we count.
Yet at the same time a wondering black hole, a comet, or millions of other things I'm just not considering could easily come along from space and wipe us out and the rest of the universe would be largely uneffected. If our sun died, slamming into us as it expands, nothing else would care or notice for longer than the history of humanity itself.
So we're a special anomoly because we exist yet at the same time our existance is hardly a spot in the history/scale of the universe. I have such a love/hate relationship with astronomy.
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Date: 2009-03-29 11:52 pm (UTC)Yet at the same time a wondering black hole, a comet, or millions of other things I'm just not considering could easily come along from space and wipe us out and the rest of the universe would be largely uneffected. If our sun died, slamming into us as it expands, nothing else would care or notice for longer than the history of humanity itself.
So we're a special anomoly because we exist yet at the same time our existance is hardly a spot in the history/scale of the universe. I have such a love/hate relationship with astronomy.