Sunday, February 17, 2013

Alien improbabilities..

The reason why an alien civilization has not reached the Earth (officially, that is) is actually quite simple (apart from the fact that we may really be the only planet with life as we know it):  The Earth is a tiny, tiny part of the entire Universe and happening upon it, even by accident, requires enormous luck and fortune.

Check out this video made by the American Museum of Natural History and you will truly appreciate how insignificant our place in the cosmos really is.  Carl Sagan would have simply smiled upon seeing this:

1 comment:

mindquest said...

Amazing video! In spite of the spec or probably not even so in the cosmic space, billions of miles across, Earth's uniqueness as a beautiful, blue and “life-full” planet is overwhelming… a thing that we so casually accept!