LA> But we are not just talking about any planet are we?
 LA> Wouldn't we really be talking about some very PARTICULAR
 LA> sort of planet? After all, we have a dozen planets or moons
 LA> of significant size in our own Solar system, don't we, but
 LA> only this planet Earth seems suitable, doesn't it?
The possibility that another planet having similar if not exact
conditions which make it possible to harbour life forms is so great
mathematically that there are probably thousands if not millions
of such earth-like planets out there developed to different degrees
of evolution depending on the life cycle of their suns about which they
turn.
That any one of these planets could have (and probably have) attained
an advanced state of space travel allowing them to travel near the speed
of light, is a strong possibility in the overall realm of things.
I think that as we learn and discover about other life forms in space
which exist in differing conditions, that the existence of life is not
a rare commodity, but that the intelligence to be knowledgeable about
other life forms is the rarest commodity of all.
That the quest to discover this is the underlying fate of all intelligence.
We are not alone!
James Root
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