Googled 'how big is the universe?' and got 46 billion light years. No human mind can conceptualize those dimensions. This reminds me of my favorite scene from
Contact:
It is almost criminal how well Matthew McConaughey has aged compared to Jodie Foster
but seriously just thinking similar conditions for gravity, light, heat, atmosphere, etc., present on this mudball does not exist elsewhere is, well, as hard to dismiss as mentally picturing the universe's true size.
I have always thought extraterrestrial
intelligent life exists. In my opinion, it would be contradiction being a science fiction fan and thinking differently, so my lifelong questions have been:
- What kind of technology would allow they OR we to travel to the other?
- How would I personally react seeing or meeting an extraterrestrial?
Truthfully, I do not know if I would be more fascinated with a eight-armed, six-eyed, hairy four-foot being or with the vessel he/she/it traveled in. However, I would hope that I could hold it together and learn how to communicate with he/she/it before the impulse to reach for a can of Raid overcame me.