Ideas of science

Each and every one of us dreams of what something, anything unknown, might have come to be or to be like.  If any of us has any curiosity to the way things came to being or exploring the unknown, then many of us might have thought of such a thing.

This universe we live in is vast, never ending.  Millions of light years across, maybe even more.  We can’t tell for 100% how big the universe is.  The possibilities of what’s out there are entirely endless.  Take a look at our own planet.  Hundreds of life forms, with human beings said to be the dominant species.  Was it a chance that we, out of all the life on this planet, ended up becoming the primary species?  I know there will be scoffing and rebuttal from certain corners of the debate of “how we came to be”, but one could even argue that we, as humans, are extremely vain if we think that some immortal being that looks down on us and gave us all life looks exactly like us.  What if God is a big monkey, or maybe a beetle (the bug, not John, Paul, George or Ringo), or possibly a single cell organism.  We don’t know what God looks like.  We don’t even know what God’s gender is.  We truly don’t even know if God actually exists.

But I will leave the aspect of religion out of this, thereby cutting short any debate.  This is all merely speculation, which ties into what I’ve been writing, working on and preparing for February.

We all agree, the universe is vast, hundreds of lifeforms across this planet, scientists are discovering other Earth like planets light years away from ours.  Do they have a complete ecosystem?  A dominant species? If so, what does that species look like?  By some freak chance, what if that species happened to be similar to one on Earth, but instead of humans to evolve, what if it was velociraptors? Or wolves? Or tigers?

Science has proven that many creatures on Earth that we’ve believed are not intelligent are actually highly intelligent.  Wolves have a very structured social circle and intricate communication system.  Cats have been known to problem solve.  Certain breeds of parrot (in the wild) are known to name their young and call out with those names.  Foxes are extremely cunning and can problem solve.  Many different species have the ability to remember activities and can learn quite easily.

This does sound like the stuff of science fiction.  But some ideas from science fiction have become science fact.  Kepler finds a planet that is similar to Earth 600 light years away?  Douglas Adams predicted it first in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  We don’t know what’s out there.  But we shouldn’t allow that to intimidate us.  It may take some time, but the things we’ve read in different science fiction books, watched on television and seen in movies might one day happen.  When it does, we should embrace it, and explore.  Fulfill our curious nature and see what’s out there, and discover what is similar to us along with what may be different.

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