(May 21, 2015 at 4:38 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(May 21, 2015 at 4:14 am)ignoramus Wrote: The shit this planet went through just to get the variables in the right place at the right time boggle "my small mind" anyway!
And then the cooking starts ....let simmer for a billion years, etc
Yeah, the Fermi paradox bubbles my brain too. I mean, the sheer overwhelming vastness of space with the innumerable galaxies, stars, planets... statistically, however complex, difficult or unlikely our arisal, it must have happened elsewhere in the universe. Right?
Somebody has to be first.
Additionally, the first planet that 'goes all the way' to a technological civilization capable of interstellar flight and an urge to colonize, 'wins' the galaxy.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.