The most ironic thing about our search for life on other planets isn’t that we assume other life to be biological carbon-based organisms on Earth-like rocky planets with water. We’ve found plenty of those, yet still come up short on actual signs of life. Just the building blocks…
Everywhere you look in the night sky — every point of light — is either a star harboring a planetary disc or another galaxy with trillions more stars.
We look to the planets in our search for life when we could be looking directly at our ancestors in space.
Yes, ancestors in space.
Our sun formed in the wake of the supernova of the previous sun. Our entire solar system was formed from the atoms fused then spread in that supernova and the ones before it.
We’re not just cosmic stardust. We are the afterlife of stars. And every star in the universe is our family.
Still feel small and insignificant?
Every light you see is a reflection of you — life. Every direction you look, you will find life.
We’re not just looking in the wrong places.
The problem is our limiting definition of life.
Because stars have life cycles. They have partners. They consume and produce byproducts. What we think are the definitions of biological life are a reflection of how stars live and die. As above, so below.
So now when you look to the sky, see life everywhere.
Because it’s a reflection of you.
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