Cool fairy tale, bro....

[V0ltairesGh0st]

14. A thought I have more often than any other.

I often star gaze... and I am filled with more awe than anything I've ever learned or experienced standing here on the surface this world. I think of the Drake equation and it utterly blows my mind.

I wonder how many beings are probably 'out there'... that we have no evidence for yet ? We use science like the drake equation to theorize about the probability other life elsewhere...but when you consider all the recent extra solar planets we have found it becomes even more clear that we are not likley to be alone in the vastness of the stars, and galaxies we have yet to even see. I am looking forward to the launch of the James Webb Space telescope and i feel it will only show us more that we need to put our focus as a race of 'intelligent living beings' on things beyond this world, and our striving to put our footprint in the stars was more than just an assumption of intelligence but was a living devotion to it. In so doing we can more easily shed the superstitions, and fears that haunt us in this world, which should bring us all to a greater perspective on life here, and beyond here.

I ponder specifically sometimes how many like us have come and gone already, how did they live, will we ever know they existed with the unfathomable amounts of time erasing everything they ever were, before it could ever be discovered by others like us, that even they thought surely were out here somewhere.



(top post at reddit , ironically.)

This is section we can see of our own galaxy, and completely erased all the subjective things I used to irrationally fear in this life on this planet rather they be 'gods', ghosts, or demons, Heaven, or Hell. It made me live in the now, and realize that NOW is all we ever have. I make the best i can of NOW and feel much better without the burdens of superstition that used to weigh on me so heavily. It's liberating and humbling to understand the true nature of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation.


http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/universe/extent-of-human-radio-broadcasts.html


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/