alien deniers be like ‘there’s no way life can exist on a random planet in the galaxy, not possible.’ and then this is literally where they live pic.twitter.com/doldc3Vh9o
— (@lucylovebunny) January 1, 2023
I’ve thought about that — and laughed about it — since I was 8-9 years old.
It’s one of the last refuges of human-centric (and in Western society, Christian-inflected) belief to think that humans are uniquely special. That never made any sense to me at all. The chances of there being no other aliens in this galaxy is just vanishingly tiny.