Reply #41: The possibility that there aren't any aliens.

[otherlander]

Okay, they wouldn't be aliens if they were on their own planet, but I mean, intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Look at a picture of the galaxy. It's huge, and the stars look so small, and the sun is much smaller than some of them, and the earth is a speck that was spun off from the sun. And even the galaxies, those are spread so thin across the void, a pocket of gas here and there; but for the most part the universe is a void.

The life of our sun compared to the life of the galaxy is short. The earth goes around it, some carbon mutates, becomes life, and moves up onto the dry patches to create civilization. The sun goes out, the pebbles spinning around it go cold, and the galaxy goes on unchanged. That doesn't bother me in itself, because all civilizations fall eventually, but if there aren't any aliens, all the love in the universe will have been nothing but a brief irregularity on a pebble.