Is There Anybody Out There?

63 trillion miles away from earth, there is a star. Epsilon Eridani to be precise. Come to find out recently, this star is actually the sun of another solar system, with about 3, possibly more, planets orbiting there. The Epsilon Eridani is about 850 million years old. Sounds pretty damn old, but considering that our sun is about 4.5 billion years old, it's still a child in comparison, but basically it's about the right time and age for development to occur.

Some of these planets may be terrestrial planets, either now or may become. We will find out surely within the next 20 years if anything is going on, on these planets since right now we can't see them fully in that systems inner dust ring.

Won't it be neat to see if we do discover early life? To shatter this self righteous claim that we are the only ones out there? To watch and see how life begins there, will answer a lot of questions about here. But I still see the main question being, "Is it by chance that again all things just happened to come together for life to exists, or is it God creating another planet of life?"

Regardless, it is possible that we are seeing another earth coming to fruition. The next few years will be pretty exciting in this aspect. I hope we do find another life already up and running, or still in early steps of evolution. Something that we can watch and learn from.



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