Aliens

Aliens. Do I need to go on? Fine, fine, I will. Science, from what I have read, don't have an explanation of why we have not seen aliens or signs of intelligent life in the cosmos. Ideally, we should have seen something by now, even a radio signal. I mean mathematically speaking, with the low end estimate of 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and even assuming that only 10% of those have planets that leaves us with 10 billion stars with planets. If we just guess that only 10% of those planets are able to support life, that is still one billion planets supporting life. We could go farther still, and only 10% of life is intelligent, we are now at 100 million intelligent life planets. Surely that is good odds for life.

And then you have the crazies out there that say we are the only ones in this massive universe. Yeah its a dumb thing to think. Not only because with an estimate of 100 billion galaxies, and the same odds of life that ours has, there should be many many more out there. "But God made this all for us!" I hear a cry from the back row, to which I reply, "Are you so self centered and selfish, you think any of this is for you?" I do not mean to sound mean, but if we were the only ones, why would God have made so much out there?

Truth is, God didn't make anything for us. Though he did give us a planet and as far as we have found so far, a very amazing and unique planet. But still, it was not made for us. I would almost argue we were made for it. And all of it was made because God is a creator and that is what creators do. You can even take Genesis 1 as an example as us being made for the world. We were the last to go on here. He had what He wanted this planet to be, then made man to dwell on it.

Already we have found Stars with planets that circle them, and many in the habitable zone of their star. Some are rocky, others are gas giants, and some could be rocky planets with water. A few are found much to close to the sun, but suggest the planet itself is made up much like Earth is.

From Nasa's Tumblr page

I got on the idea of aliens, because I read an article on 10 intriguing worlds we have found around stars. These are just the planets fairly close to us. Kepler-186f is earth size, and is in the right place to support life. That depends on a few things, like is it for sure a rocky planet like ours? What is the atmosphere made of? And many more things that we cannot tell at this point in time.

Maybe someday we can find out, the science in space travel is an ever growing study. It is possible that there are people alive now, that will see us travel and leave our solar system. Boy I hope I am around for that. We have technologies that are real now, or just need a bit more work for space travel, things like Light Sails, Fusion, anti-matter, or even a black hole drive. I mean let's travel the same way the Romulans do. Little bit of controlled lasers, a bit of radiation, and we have an engine running on a black hole of light, getting us where ever we want to go, pretty darn fast. And as weird as it sounds, we have already people working on warp drives like Star Trek.

So we could travel out there and see aliens. Or maybe they will find their way to us eventually. Though I have a feeling they would not be peaceful. Our biggest reason to travel into space is not because of exploration, but because of dire need. It is safe to say those aliens are doing the same. And not to leave out the young earthers out there, if everything is as old as they say, all that life is in the same boat as us so it would make sense we haven't seen them.

I think we haven't seen aliens simply because of the sheer size of the galaxy, let alone the rest of the universe. But I believe God has made countless worlds because he loves to create. I would even go as far as saying, if those aliens did something to fall from God's grace as man has, then I firmly believe that Jesus also visited those planets and gave his life for them.

God made the stars and all the countless worlds to simply glorify him. The same with all life, including us. We are here to give him glory. But man wouldn't it be awesome to travel to the stars? But there are aliens out there. There are planets a plenty. Right now we are looking for places that have stuff in common with Earth, but what if God had made other beings for the other planets he made. He made us to fit Earth, but what if he made someone to fit Kepler-186f the same way.

Thanks for reading my musings.