I think we can learn alot about the universe by studying our own solar system. Everything came from the same clump of junk in the very beginning, right? So everything is esentially made of the same stuff, at the very least at the atomic level. We're a somewhat average sized planet orbiting an average sized sun. We possibly have a sister star, which we have seen examples of through our telescopes. We have comets and meteors in our solar system that sometimes collide with the planets. At least one of our 8.5 planets currently harbors life. We think it could be possible for a moon to harbor life as well. In addition to the main planets, we have at least 3 "dwarf planets."
We can see other stars with planets around them, (relatively) not too far from our own solar system. But really, we can only see the large gaseous planets, because those reflect more light, and are generally easier to detect.
Pluto, formerly the smallest planet in our solar system, now merely a Dwarf planet, has a moon larger than itself. Some scientists want to call it a binary planet, since neither object lies in the center of its orbital trajectory.
So what we have is a young to middle aged yellow star with a multitude of planets and rocks and dust orbiting it, including possibly a sister star. and this faintly glowing clump of dust has one tiiiiiny barely visible planet harboring life. And we dare think we're alone?
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well even though im not going to say there can't be another lifeform out there. I can't say there is either. the clencher here though is if we could produce a machine capable of finding them, we don't know what lvl of spore there on. we could be the life breathing super race to them (what a sad thought, human kind spreading its rampant unchecked emotions to a pure and simple race. pandoras box 2). or we coulf end up in a sci fi specia fighting super monsters with beam weapons in space. the unknown is simply to large to fathom. and the saddest truth of all is that we may never meet our, creators, destroyer, equal, or just another slave race. the way things are looking, human progress has taken a back seat to personal wealth and comercializm. the only thing you or I can hope for is that we live long enough to see an enviroment that fosters human kinds progress as something more then something to make money off of. also the blog title, you gt a behemoth song backwards.
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