Imagine filling a glass by dipping it into the ocean. Just because there are no fish in the glass, can we assume that there are no fish in the ocean?
Now compare this analogy to space and extra-terrestrial life.
As Carl Sagan mentioned, we are a 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale, but I’m still sure we’re capable of finding life elsewhere in our galaxy (or they can find us), if not our solar system.
Breaking this down into two arguments, one looking into the probability and the other, signals by SETI and METI. The Voyager spaceships too carried the golden records which will allow any intelligent life to contact us and understand our type of civilization. Statistically speaking, finding aliens is like finding a needle in a haystack. SETI, has been continuously working for 45 years to receive a signal, primarily focussing on project phoenix. The arrays of radio telescopes help in detecting signals from intelligent life, furthermore many physicists and researchers claim that life may have even existed on Mars.
However, if you ask me the only movie which I’ve cried watching, is Interstellar. In it, “they” contacted us, but turns out it was just “us” in the future. Transcending through space and time, there is a possibility we find extraterrestrial life. Most of the movies we’ve grown up with like ET: Extra-Terrestrial, Aliens and the Predator emphasise on extraterrestrial life, which is also popularized through the Area 51 conspiracy theories and the recent videos released by the Pentagon, and we can presume that they might be closer to us than we think. An alternate solution can include a spaceship, which can include hibernation in the spaceship as in Passengers, or generations of humans inhabiting another planet, and who knows what intelligent life we might find?
For everything in my life I have tried to compare it to the observable universe, who knows what else I’m yet to find. They said E=mc² is incomplete, but enough for me to realise that we’re all just a speck of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here, you have to be a little crazy if you’re that sitting in a metal tube, waiting for it to set off, and going someplace where no one has ever been with no guarantee that you’ll ever return, and trusting it without even fully understanding because as I see it there are no limits (yet).
It’s not rocket science, we’re stuck in an orb floating in the middle of nowhere it’s okay to feel a little lost sometimes.
