Are We Alone In The Galaxy ?

Csabaxb:_vip::_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2019-10-24 18:05:34(265Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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sherb wrote:

Csabaxb wrote:

Ok, in the town i live, at 7 km exist one of the most famous woods in World. CHEILE BACIULUI. It's romanian. Many strange things happens here. Weird trees, many gates to other dimensions, filmed ghost faces, filmed walking ghosts, flying Ufo's. For over 35 years here i go after mushrooms with my friend. Many times we filling cold in some places even was full sun in the sky, weird.
oooogh, I do love spooky woods.

Magic shrooms by any chance Csa :D
yes, they are plenty, i have hundreds pictures in my phone of what i find, prepper and eat from here:D

 
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sherb:_trusted_uploader::_sitefriend::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-01-31 15:42:48(251Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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UltraRound:_trusted_user:Posted at 2020-04-20 11:18:22(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Nothing real really dies,the whole universe is just vibrating at various rates.

 
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miok:_super_admin:Posted at 2020-04-20 15:52:47(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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No topic names all in CAPITALS and topic names with special symbols are allowed
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squarePosted at 2020-04-20 16:54:53(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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UltraRound wrote:

Nothing real really dies,the whole universe is just vibrating at various rates.
The wife's rampant rabbit died on her once , she said it wasnt vibrating at all .

Welcome to TGx UltraRound .

 
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eyez:_trusted_uploader::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-04-20 17:09:55(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Nuff said...

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squarePosted at 2020-04-20 17:37:19(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Some good articles regarding the bright new hope for a planet that might support life , Kepler 1649c

 
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Csabaxb:_vip::_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-04-20 17:43:03(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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it's a little too far-far away, 300 lightyears
here to read: https://ourplnt.com/earth-sized-planet-kepler-1649c-habitable-zone-detected/

 
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squarePosted at 2020-04-20 18:08:24(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Csabaxb wrote:

it's a little too far-far away, 300 lightyears
here to read: https://ourplnt.com/earth-sized-planet-kepler-1649c-habitable-zone-detected/
Hi Csa , that is a long way but I meant support life that was already there , the last thing I would want is for us to go there and fcuk up another planet .

 
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Csabaxb:_vip::_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-04-20 18:14:16(240Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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square wrote:

Csabaxb wrote:

it's a little too far-far away, 300 lightyears
here to read: https://ourplnt.com/earth-sized-planet-kepler-1649c-habitable-zone-detected/
Hi Csa , that is a long way but I meant support life that was already there , the last thing I would want is for us to go there and fcuk up another planet .

yes, you are right, not good thing, specially now with this f...ing corona


 
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MissKitti:_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_female::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2020-09-12 17:45:37(219Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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😺 Especially since any planet capable of life would already have life on it . :love

 
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Are we alone in the universe? You’re not alone if you want to find out!


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Help search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations! (Credit: UCLA SETI and Yuri Beletsky)


This Valentine's Day, fall in love with science! Join the new NASA project called “Are we alone in the universe?” and help scientists find signs of extraterrestrial intelligence! UCLA SETI is observing thousands of stars at radio wavelengths to search for signals made by extraterrestrials. They need your help to sort through the data.

No special training or education is needed to participate. After watching a brief tutorial, you’ll look at an image of a radio signal and answer a basic question about what you see. Then you’ll select the image that most closely resembles the signal. Your work will help train artificial intelligence algorithms to identify signals made by intelligent life.

“Humankind’s most profound discovery could be a few clicks away,” said doctoral student Megan Li, who works on the project.

Are We Alone In the Universe was built by UCLA SETI on the Zooniverse platform with funding from The Planetary Society and the NASA Citizen Science Seed Funding Program. Snuggle up with a sweetheart—or just a laptop—and go tohttps://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ucla-seti-group/are-we-alone-in-the-universeto join the search!


 
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Jase1:_trusted_user::_sitefriend::_male::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2023-03-20 19:34:48(88Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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For the longest time, belief in extraterrestrial life was considered a fringe viewpoint, more suitable for sci-fi conventions and fans of Star Trek or the X-Files. Today, it’s the exact opposite. Those who reject the notion of alien life are considered to be the outliers. This change in attitude occurred for several reasons, perhaps none as important as the discovery that exoplanets are everywhere — 100 billion of them in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Surely, with so many opportunities for life to flourish, the universe must be teeming with extraterrestrials. But is it? Other than Earth, there’s almost certainly no other life in our solar system. Most exoplanets we know of are not particularly hospitable to life. Most stars are incapable of supporting photosynthesis. The reality is that Earth-like planets are probably rare, but that doesn’t rule out E.T. The universe, after all, is a pretty big place. The debate continues.

 
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This question is often asked in the wrong way. And they think about it wrong from the ground up, so they come to the wrong conclusions.

The first question is really, is there intelligent life on Earth? Can humanity be called intelligent if it deliberately destroys its own habitat? They exterminate each other in cruel and bloody wars. The majority miserable in inhuman conditions.

Surely we are not alone, because there were intelligent beings before us:

- God exists from eternity to eternity. In other words, our earthbound view of space-time is almost incomprehensible. Because He exists independently of space and time as we know it.

- But God is not alone. Because the Bible tells us that the sons of the Most High God, the angelsons , all rejoiced together at the creation of the first man. The number of these spirit creations is also recorded in the Bible, a thousand multiplied by thousand, or a million. So we are certainly not alone. It doesn't matter who believes what, because it's something completely independent from us.

And then we haven't even talked about our physical universe and parallel worlds and other timelines...

 
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Soup:_moderator:Posted at 2023-03-20 22:05:34(88Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Why do people always bring god into the conversation of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

Now don't get me wrong i'm not crapping on the beliefs of others, but from my own point of view we are all made of stars not put here by a omnipotent guy with doc martin sandals and gandalfs beard

Peace :_alien

 
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Nice Avatar Soup. I Love Hawkwind. :_:D

 
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sherb:_trusted_uploader::_sitefriend::_sitelover::_junkie::_kitty::_sun::_turtle:Posted at 2023-03-21 02:41:58(87Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Soup wrote:

put here by a omnipotent guy with doc martin sandals and gandalfs beard

Peace :_alien
:_:-):_:-):_:-)

 
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LionElBunny:_trusted_user::_male::_sitelover::_kitty::_turtle:Posted at 2023-03-21 15:02:55(87Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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Soup wrote: "Why do people always bring God into the conversation about whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?"

They bring He in because it is the cornerstone-point of the issue. Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.

There are two main world views:
1) God created everything.
2) The world around us just happened to come out of nothing.

Energy is not creating,
energy is not lost,
energy just transforms.

1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.
2) It all began with the Big Bang.

1) God's power, force, energy is infinite.
2) Everything exploded out of nothing. The Universe was came out of nothing.

1) If God created everything, then there is a purpose for life, there is a purpose for the Universe to exist.
2) If the work of the blind coincidence is what we see around us, then nothing has purpose, nothing has meaning.

To conclude the supernatural topic, for rational people the real question is not Creation, but the origin of God. How come into being and where did He come from the all-designing and all-creating Almighty God? There is no answer to this question and perhaps there never will be. Simply because we are incapable of understanding it.

"Every house has a builder.
God made everything."

The house is a very simple and primitive thing compared to the Universe. No one human believes that a house can just come into being by itself, by coincidence.

Even with a clockwork precision working Universe cannot come into existence by itself. If any of the physical constants of the Universe were to change by a billion units, everything would be destroyed.

If anyone imagines that the very complex DNA molecule is the work of coincidence, they are more blinded, more fanatically obsessed than any God-believer...

Back to the basic question: are we alone?
- I already described in the supernatural section that we are not alone.
- Here on Earth we are not alone. Dolphins, bees, ants and the rest... In school we were taught that man is intelligent because he uses tools and instruments. Since then, this has been modified because animals also use tools and instruments.

I think that we are not alone in space, in time, in other dimensions, in parallel worlds.

As far as UFO phenomena are concerned, we are talking about real things. Some of them are the result of known events. The smaller part cannot be explained yet. Probably:
- Covert military assets
- So far unknown phenomena
- Time travellers from our past, our future (e.g., Atlantis)
- Representatives of alien civilizations
- Unknown lifeforms (Usually people don't see the UFO itself, but the surrounding ionizing air envelope.)

 
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Are we alone? The search for intelligent life in the universe

With roughly 100 billion galaxies hosting countless stars each, the universe seems like it should be teeming with life. But is it?
By Laurence Tognetti  |  Published: Wednesday, October 5, 2022

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Our understanding of the cosmos is far from complete. But perhaps life can also thrive elsewhere beyond Earth.
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Are we alone?

This question has plagued humankind since time immemorial. And yet, we still don’t have a conclusive answer. Despite our incredible technological advancements, we have never received a credible radio signal from, or even the teeniest trace of, extraterrestrial life beyond Earth.

The current hunt for alien life includes: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, which has scoured the skies for radio signals from intelligent beings since its founding in 1984; the Kepler space telescope, which observed more than 500,000 stars during its mission, confirming more than 2,500 exoplanets; and more recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which just took its first direct image of an exoplanet.

Perhaps the most tantalizing potential signal from an extraterrestrial civilization is the famous Wow! Signal. This very brief, but very intense, radio signal was detected by Ohio State University’s Big Ear Radio Telescope Aug. 15, 1977, and it lasted for 1 minute and 12 seconds. The signal was so intriguing that astronomer Jerry Ehman enthusiastically wrote the word “Wow!” on the data printout.

Most now agree the Wow! Signal is unlikely to be from aliens. But in a recent May 2022 study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, researchers identified a possible source of the Wow! Signal: a Sun-like star a bit more than 1,800 light years from Earth.

Still, the question remains: Are we alone?

“The only correct answer to this question [for now] is that we don't know,” Manasvi Lingam, an astrobiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, tells Astronomy.

“With that said,” he adds, “I am hopeful of the existence of extraterrestrial life, given the number of potentially habitable worlds and the ongoing exciting research into the origin(s) of life.”

How likely are we to find life elsewhere in the universe?

Two of the most iconic insights related to the possibility of technological civilizations existing elsewhere in the universe are the Fermi Paradox and the Drake equation, which were formulated by Enrico Fermi and Frank Drake, respectively.

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Enrico Fermi, ca. 1950. Fermi's conversational question about the apparent lack of extraterrestrial life — "Where are they?" — has sparked debate ever since.
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The Fermi Paradox attempts to address the question “Where is everybody?” By most accounts, Fermi asked this deceptively simple question in 1950 during lunch with colleagues. The simple question has since spurred scientists to better understand the possible reasons that we haven’t heard from any technologically advanced alien civilizations.

“The Fermi Paradox is interesting because it contradicts the possibility of advanced life in our galaxy,” Harshini Sunil, an astronomy and physics undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, tells Astronomy.

“If advanced civilizations have existed before us, then they would have had ample time to develop interstellar travel and would have made it to Earth,” Sunil says. “If we invented interstellar travel, where would we go first? We have the predictions of places for life, but they are still hundreds or more light-years away. Even if we could travel at the speed of light, there is no guarantee that we will know exactly where to look. It’s like hunting for needles in a haystack. I do not think the possibility of finding advanced life is black or white. There is so much we first need to discover and learn before we can start predicting where and if advanced life exists.”

While the Fermi Paradox asks why we haven’t heard from anyone, the Drake equation attempts to spin a more optimistic approach to this conundrum. The Drake equation is an attempt to quantify the total number of technological civilizations that might currently exist in the cosmos. To do this, the equation factors in astronomical, biological, psychological, and technological elements. However, because the exact values for each of the equation’s variables are largely unknown, the Drake equation tends to estimate the number of potential technological civilizations at anywhere between one (us) and 1,000,000.

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The Drake equation is used to estimate the number of advanced civilizations in the Milky Way. Because researchers work with a number of uncertainties within each variable, the equation can never be solved.

“The Drake equation serves both as a reality check and a hopeful mantra for those involved in the search for life elsewhere,” Frannie Edmonson, an astrobiology senior undergraduate student in the Department of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, tells Astronomy. “Running through its argument gives you a bleak outlook on our galaxy’s intelligent population, but the objectiveness of the equation is necessary for research. Not every stray signal we detect will be an E.T. neighbor shouting between solar systems! Still, I remain hopeful when considering the Drake equation because of our own existence; even with slim chances, our intelligent civilization exists, so there is the potential for others.”

Yet the question remains: Are we alone?

Where should we look for alien life?

For now, we have yet to confirm a definitive radio signal from ET or develop the technology needed to explore the universe beyond the solar system with a spacecraft. However, there are still a plenty of planets, and even moons, right here in our solar system that we can search for microbial life.

But where are the best places to look?

“I find it difficult to choose between sheltered places on Mars or the ocean floor of small oceanic moons like Enceladus and Europa as the ‘likeliest’ places other life could be found in our solar system,” Melissa Sedler, who recently graduated with a Masters of Natural Sciences from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, tells Astronomy.

“We know from our continuing study of the Earth and its extreme environments [at least extreme from our perspective] that life thrives even where we don’t expect it,” she says. “Similar niches might be sequestered in and among the ice caps or beneath the surface of the Red Planet. But the presence of liquid water touching a rocky seafloor opens up the thrilling possibility of a place for life more as we know it. Planets, dwarf planets, and even moons can have dynamic processes at work inside them, and we’ve known since the 1970’s that Earth’s deep ocean floor allows the exchange of energy between our planet and the ocean water. Perhaps the lively oases we find at deep sea hydrothermal vents have similar counterparts beneath those extraterrestrial oceans.”

While NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are busy searching for ancient — and possibly present — signs of life within Gale Crater and Jezero Crater, respectively, NASA is hard at work on both current and future missions that will seek life elsewhere in the universe. But which of these missions could finally help us answer the longstanding question of whether or not we are alone?

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Mars' Jezero Crater was once home to a river delta. That history, and the potential for finding signs of ancient alien life, pushed NASA to pick Jezero as the landing site for its Perseverance rover.
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“Within our solar system, I would pick the upcoming Dragonfly mission (although the missions to Mars and Europa merit mention too) because it could offer novel insights into Titan's habitability, and perhaps uncover traces of life,” says Lingam. “The other mission I wish to highlight is the currently operational James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which enables us to search for biosignatures and technosignatures on exoplanets.”

What would happen if humanity found extraterrestrial life?

Even if we find intelligent — or even microbial — life beyond Earth, how will this affect humanity? Would we come together as one with the discovery that we are, in fact, not alone in the universe? Or would we lose our collective minds?

“As much as the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be hugely exciting, I also can't help but feel that it doesn't change our place in the universe,” Ian Marrs, a PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University, tells Astronomy.

“Finding extraterrestrial life would be comforting, since it would help soothe the concerns raised by the Fermi paradox. But I don't think that it should ‘dethrone’ humanity's place in the universe,” says Marrs. “We, like the animals and plants all around us, are the product of billions of years of evolution, and that in itself is incredible. If we find extraterrestrial life, we have enriched the story of the universe, not diminished ourselves.”

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The Great Filter theory suggests that all life must overcome certain challenges, and at least one hurdle is nearly impossible to clear.


The hunt for alien life presses on

For now, SETI continues to scan the skies for radio signals, JWST keeps blowing our minds with jaw-dropping images and data, the Mars rovers keep drilling holes near their landing sites, and future missions continue to be planned to explore the outer solar system for signs of life.

And yet, still, the question remains: Are we alone?

Perhaps, one day, humanity will finally know the answer to this question. But until that day comes, all we can do is press on with our search.

 
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Soup wrote:

Why do people always bring god into the conversation of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe
I think in part its because when you look at life you see it covers the earth, even hot sulfur vents in the ocean are teeming with life. Not just alive but evolving to compensate for surrounding elements.

This seems to suggest that life itself has a powerful force.  So what is that life force ?
Humans do not like unanswered questions, we want the answer and we want it fast and if you disagree we'll kick your ass.
so the easiest way to put the question to rest is to attribute it to god.

After that conclusion its easy to make the same answer for life in the universe.

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Superbikemike:_moderator::_turtle:Posted at 2023-03-21 16:10:05(87Wks ago) Report Permalink URL 
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yes there is, its been proven already from algae on mars to bacteria on the moon to the trees on the kepler planets.. no we are not alone...  other intelligent life lets see with over 50 trillon planets to think less would be completely ignorant.. obama put it right while he will not deny there are aliens at all,  he is not permitted to say if there are .... if there was and they were to come here trust me it will not be a friendly experience ..:_facepalm

 
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I believe this


Apollo 11: “Those are giant things. No, no, no, this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this.”

NASA: “What… what…. what? What the hell is happening?” “What’s wrong with you?”

Apollo 11: “They’re here, under the surface.”

NASA: “What’s there? (muffled noise) Emission interrupted; interference control calling Apollo 11.”

Apollo 11: “We saw some visitors. They were here for a while, observing the instruments.”

NASA: “Repeat your last information.”

Apollo 11: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up in the other side of the crater.”

Apollo 11: “Let us sound this orbita… in 625 to 5… automatic relay connected… my hands are shaking so badly I can’t do anything. Film it? God if these damned cameras have picked up anything – what then?”

NASA: “Have you picked up anything?”

Apollo 11: “I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers, or whatever they were that were ruining the film.”

NASA: “Control, control here. Are you on your way? What is the uproar with the UFOs over?

Apollo 11: “They’ve landed there. There they are and they’re watching us.

NASA: “The mirrors, the mirrors – have you set them up?”

Apollo 11: “Yes, they’re in the right place. But whoever made those spaceships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out.”

 
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I believe there are forms of life highly technologically advance, in terms of how much, is like they can use one galaxy to obtain energy. Its a bit confuse to explain how much they are advance, but they controle the travels through worm holes.
And the theory among others that try to explain the Fermi paradox is the ant theory.
let me try to explain very simple...we, humans know that somewhere in the amazon jungle there are millions of ants but we are so evolved compared to the ants that we ignore them and don't go to the amazon jungle to see the ants and prove they exist.
And the high evolved species know that are some other species, but these species are so down in the evolution scale, like, they only begin to explore space and use hydrocarbons to propel there modest crafts. To resume, we in a scale 1 to 5 are at level 1 and they are level 5. In there minds they must think 'why go there?', what they have to offer us?'- so, they leave us here with this terrible doubt, 'are we alone?'
Just think this, if you see an ant colony , they are very organized, but they leave in their insect world and will never see the big picture.
One big thing we know, we have conscience and this conscience is beginning to explore this huge Universe.

 
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