Thanks, this is really impressive. Living on the country i can get agood view at the illuminated band we call milky way, it is well visible in not so densely habitated areas.
Billions of other stars like and unlike our sun, in our galaxy alone - and it is just an arm of our spiral galaxy, this cloudy band we call milky way. And certainly, there are more than billions of
galaxies out there.
Anyway i found this pretty impressive, but the spiral galaxies being photographed by the Hubble telescope are even more unsettling.
Yep we are really important, and surely the only life ..
Maybe other life is not so far developed, or then so far that we would not be able to see it or percept it as "life", or it has already killed itself in wars.
Like Lem said, the chance to meet something else sentient is infinitesimal, in space, but also in time. This small window of contact in which we would be even able to percept something else that uses communication like we do.
But it is certainly more important to which god we pray, and which political theories are "right", on our ridiculous sandkorn.
Maybe Douglas Adams is right, and we will just be swept away, to make room for interstellar highways
