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I’ve been watching Star Trek a lot again (my Sabres are done, so… I have more viewing time.) 🙂 I love the stories… I love the idea of space travel. I even love the idea of alien worlds and cultures. Pretty neat.

I have a nifty screen saver that shows a real-time satelite view of the Earth. It’s amazing! I was just taking a look at it and just had to smile at how COOL the Earth is. I thought how amazing it would be to see it from that vantage point. Perhaps from the moon? Even further? But then how much cooler to return home to the big blue oceans, and the green land masses, and the white clouds circling the globe.

And I just wondered… what if we are the only ones? What if we someday figure out how to travel between star systems… and we discover that there is no other planet like ours, and there are no other forms of life outside of our own planet? (In this case, I mean like us… not microbes or whatever…) What would that say about our planet? About us? Doesn’t that make this place pretty amazingly special?

I think it does.

Like I said… I think it would be neat to find other planets like ours out there… even to find there are other living beings elsewhere in the universe. But so far… it’s just us, and we definitely have the coolest planet out there!

Although, I am somewhat partial to those big blue planets, Neptune and Uranus… they look pretty cool, too… 🙂