and think....how many other planets are full of drama like ours?

Are our problems big or little and have any affect on the Universe?

Why can't we ignore our problems if they're so small in the grand scheme of things.

Why do politics even exist if we can all focus our attention and time on exploring space?

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 3:51 AM. Reason : .]

7/20/2012 3:50:47 AM

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now. Wish right now. Wish right now...

7/20/2012 6:14:45 AM

Starships were meant to fly

7/20/2012 6:29:25 AM

Organisms on Earth are really like bacteria on bread or fleas on a dog.

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 1:49 PM. Reason : always a typo]

7/20/2012 1:49:24 PM

7/20/2012 1:55:08 PM

Give me any odds of what you think aliens existing is.

Let's do something large.

Let's do something like....

"There's a 1 out of 1x10^10 chance."

That means there's a one in ten billion chance of aliens existing.

Is that not rare enough for you? Okay. Let's do 1 out of 1x10^15. That's a one in one quadrillion chance.

Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the universe.

It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets, there are 6.25×10^18 stars with planets orbiting them in the universe.

If even a billionth of these stars have planets supporting life, there are some 6.25×10^9 (billion) life-supporting planetary systems in the universe.

6,250,000,000.

Now, what are the odds that NONE of these have any life on them?

7/20/2012 2:01:05 PM

I, too, get mindfucked when thinking about the vastness of the universe

7/20/2012 2:13:30 PM

i see ernie's already taken care of the requisite 'something large'

7/20/2012 2:14:28 PM