How many of you have looked to the night sky
and felt your heart swell with the wonder of it all?

I have spent many long nights stargazing, realising as I do,
just how insignificant we on this small blue planet really are.
It is impossible for me to grasp the vastness of it all
and I find it just as impossible to believe
that we are alone in this vastness.
In fact I find the very idea of uniqueness extremely arrogant!

The photograph on this page is one tiny, minute part of the cosmos,
try counting the stars in this cluster.
Of those that you can see, most will have planets orbiting them,
it is more than likely that the vast majority of them
do not and could not support life of any kind,
maybe none of them do, but how are we to know?
In the vastness of space
there has to be at least one Galaxy
with one Star that has one Planet
that can support life of some kind.

I choose to believe!

NEWS STORY
On Monday July 1st 2002
the BBC broadcast the news that astronomers,
after finding the 100th planet orbiting a star other than the sun,
estimate there may be as many as
30 billion "Earth-like" planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way.

When you consider that the Milky Way is only one galaxy
in a universe with an seemingly innumerable amount of galaxies,
this news is staggering to say the least!
On any planet that is like Earth,
there WILL be life in some form or another.
Just imagine for a moment,
30 billion different evolutionary phases,
some less advanced than we are
and some so advanced that we simply could not imagine it.
The possibilities are very exciting.
Maybe, just maybe, we are not as alone or unique as we thought!

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