Quote: “Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuffin it-the Sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt comets, and other miscellaneous drifting detritus-fills less than a trilJjonth of the available space. You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale.”
Question: My question is how do we know there is no life for trillions of miles? I’ve seen quite a few space/solar system documentaries, and they’re always saying how life could exist on our neighboring planets years ago. So how can we confirm that 100% that there is absolutely NO life besides on earth. There could be tiny cells on the planets that can survive extreme conditions, like the prokaryotic cells during the beginning stages of earth.
Comment: What really struck me about this passage is the truth of the matter. Like we’re not living in Star Wars galaxy, were we can just fly onto another planet full of other life forms. We’re actually kind of alone in this massive solar system, with nobody to share our intelligence and culture with. Of course there are pros to this, such as not getting taking over by aliens. However, in the end, we are still alone. So maybe in the future we would be able to advance our technology and travel farther and faster through space.
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