…The light of the night begins flitting into view

Space has always been fascinating to me. It’s so full of wonder and possibility. It makes me look at our world with all its complexity, and then I realize that there is more out there.

A lot more. A Mindbogglingly lot more. It is the paradox of space - everywhere you look in the night sky, there is something more. Space might be mostly empty - the name ‘Space’ is very fitting in that regard - but it is nonetheless full of possibility.

Almost every glimmer of light in the night sky is a star. There’s a good chance we know nothing about what that star’s system might contain. Think about it - look up in the night sky, and you are almost certainly looking at aliens.

Because I am willing to put money on the fact that we are not alone in this galaxy - we might be so far away from anyone else that we will never interact, but even if life as we know it is a near-impossibility… we’re proof that it is not utterly impossible.

And if it can happen once, it can happen again. Even if it’s the equivalent of rolling 10 dice and all of them coming up sixes, the probability that we are alone in the galaxy comes out to such a tiny number that it might as well be 0%.

And that’s just for what we can see with the naked eye - because space holds so much more wonder than what you see if you simply look up.