03-05-2003, 12:14 AM
Alone? That's a really good question. Given the 16 or so billion years since the big bang (more of a sudden decompression really), and the countless ways to construct the basic 'building blocks' of life, there should be life out there. In fact, with well over a hundred million galaxies, there has to be many planets inhabited by some form of self-replicating matter.
As for travel here, I remain skeptical. I figure if any race like us was out there with the technology to reach us, not only would they have done so, but we would have been destroyed long ago. Possibly even enslaved, though I doubt it would be much different. :cynical:
Really though, I fear being alone more than anything else. Although maybe we are the first species, and it is our destiny to create or influence all the others, like the First Ones out of Babylon5.
As for travel here, I remain skeptical. I figure if any race like us was out there with the technology to reach us, not only would they have done so, but we would have been destroyed long ago. Possibly even enslaved, though I doubt it would be much different. :cynical:
Really though, I fear being alone more than anything else. Although maybe we are the first species, and it is our destiny to create or influence all the others, like the First Ones out of Babylon5.