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Old 07-31-19, 10:33 AM   #12
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But then i fear that we one day find that we are indeed the only ones. That life and mind maybe is kind of an anomaly in a dead, mindless universe. A curious exception from the rule that can only be found on one planet, that owes its existence only to the probability saying that it shoukd exist in a universe this big and offerign this many chances for something happening.
That reminds me of this quote by the late Charles Krauthammer ...

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy – a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.
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