When I gaze up on a clear night sky either with my
astronomy binoculars or even without them, I feel so insignificant. I'm sure that our earliest ancestors admired these wonders much more than we do now.
Have you ever thought if there are any other civilizations out there? Maybe they have their own lives? Maybe they are smarter and have more interesting lives than we do here?
Our Universe contains countless other solar systems that are billions of years older than our world. Our sun turns out to be merely one rather ordinary star among hundreds of billions in a galaxy that is seen with a regular
observation binocular. So, I'm sure that people are smaller than they always think about themselves. Our lives are small temporally, as well as spatially.
Can you imagine this fourteen billion years cosmic history scaled to one day? If that happened, then 100.00 years of human history would be only four minutes, and a 100-year life would be only 0.2 seconds. From all this information we can learn that we are not that special at all, that we are insignificant.
Though I believe that advanced life has huge growth potential In making our place in space and time remarkably significant. And because of this I feel more optimistic!!!