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Most-Hawk-4175 t1_iwd3g49 wrote

Imagine life evolving on that planet in the cold pitch dark. Perfectly normal for them but light and warmth are concepts they will never comprehend. And the planet moving close to a sun and heating up would be terrifying and would destroy their world.

Makes me think why we can't find aliens because they are so different from us we will likely never find it or of we did be able to understand or communicate with it.

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Stufy_stuf OP t1_iwd3wn8 wrote

it’s crazy to think, those creatures, among literally trillions of other on billions of other planets, intelligent or not, are out there. living. existing. maybe thinking of us. thinking what carbon based life would be like, or what mammals would look like, or what oxygen tastes like. they’re just as interested and desperate to find alien life as we are, but the universe is just so, so, stupidly big that we may and probably will never find them, neither will they find us.

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Most-Hawk-4175 t1_iwd4p5f wrote

It's sad. There's got to be something out there. Some kind of life. But we may never know. Some scientists still seem optimistic about potentially finding life like SETI but others aren't so sure. It would be terrible if humanity destroys itself or gets wiped out somehow. It would be like we never existed and I wonder if this has happened to other countless civilizations.

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