I get really sad sometimes thinking of the billions of alien life that has most likely evolved and went extinct perhaps on planets with no intelligent life to document and remember them. On this planet we had everything from tyrannosaurus rex to hamsters - imagine the extremes of life in the billions of planets out there. Creatures bigger, meaner, more impressive than anything we have every seen. Imagine knowing how they hunt, how they cooperate, what they are capable of.
Also intelligent life. Imagine the cities, the culture, music, art, dance, science that has been lost. I can listen to some music and it almost brings me to tears, imagine the beauty that could have been created by other species that we'll never hear. Sad.
Key_Manager_1702 t1_iucleoi wrote
Reply to The scariest picture of space... by EDFLsnape
I get really sad sometimes thinking of the billions of alien life that has most likely evolved and went extinct perhaps on planets with no intelligent life to document and remember them. On this planet we had everything from tyrannosaurus rex to hamsters - imagine the extremes of life in the billions of planets out there. Creatures bigger, meaner, more impressive than anything we have every seen. Imagine knowing how they hunt, how they cooperate, what they are capable of.
Also intelligent life. Imagine the cities, the culture, music, art, dance, science that has been lost. I can listen to some music and it almost brings me to tears, imagine the beauty that could have been created by other species that we'll never hear. Sad.