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I remember growing up, being completely fascinated with space and the universe. I felt myself drawn to live in this vast universe, rather then the little human body I inhabited. The universe to me at the time was finite, because it encompassed the Milky Way, the known planets in our solar system, our Sun and our Moon, then all the constellations symbolized by pictures of crabs and hunters and such…that to me was the entire universe. As I grew up, the known universe remained rather small in my mind. After all, we are the only living beings in the universe, why should it be any bigger than it is?
Of course, like many, I feel I was brainwashed into thinking and believing that the universe is finite and that we know all there is to know about it. I was also led to believe that if there is other life out there…it would be NOTHING like life here. Life here is unique, because God made it so. Life “out there” would be frighteningly unrecognizable to us and absolutely foreign….even dangerous….yes, any life out there would be very “alien”…to life here.....right? Movies and films perpetrate this fear through presenting *most* aliens to be hostile or so advanced that they treat us like cattle.
Eventually, through a lot of reading, asking questions and contemplation I understood that the universe is in fact infinite. INFINITE. The human mind can hardly fathom the word, let alone visualize it along side our universe, but it is true. The universe we call home is absolutely unmappable, unknowable and preposterously unfathomable words cannot describe it's foreverness! It is absolutely out of the range of human understanding it is THAT big. Once I began to grasp this concept of our universe going on for infinity I soon realized: Who are we puny humans, to go ahead and say that there is no other life out there but us, and who are we to say what that life might look like? Unless... a lot of them look a lot like us....