are we alone in the universe?

[Barry Bonzack]

If I may borrow a line from the movie Contact: if we are the only life in the universe, its an awful waste of space.

And a line from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen ..."

When you start playing with infinities, I would believe that normal physics and equations go out the window. This is why it is hard to figure out exact science behind black holes.

(I spend too much time watching Mega Science on the Science Channel while at my dad's house)

I agree with most points made in this article, especially backing everything by the mathematical formulas. However I believe things start getting shaky when questioning how the 1E350 chance of life happening on Earth originally got here. Without turning this into a religious thread doomed to be locked, I also disagree with the thought it was intentionally sent here from another civilization. There could have been many other ways that the building blocks could have found residence here on this planet, and there are many other theories on this.

I agree humanity ultimately must attempt to colonize elsewhere. However, I don't think doing it for the sake of doing it will be a popular opinion. In order to spend the energy on trying to journey to another galaxy, there would have to be a strong reason that our own is in danger (or we could make some serious money doing so).

We know the universe is expanding and will never collapse back on itself.

Heat death is one theory, another is that the universe will indeed collapse back on itself and there will eventually be another big bang. The universe is still currently expanding. I do not understand this whole process really myself, its a bit too mindbogglying for my brain to comprehend how something that is infinitely large is still expanding.

I applaud this article and thinking, and that you have posted it open to criticism. It was an extremely interesting read and had some ideas I hadn't thought of before.