It is ignorant to believe that there is no chance of life on another planet.
The history of the Earth is just plain weird, to be honest. Basically, 4.54 billion years ago, a big mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the sun created the early phases of the Earth. Over time, by some miracle, the Earth developed into a place where intelligent life could grow and flourish.
First, let’s set the standard for what aliens are, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary an alien is a being that comes from or lives in another world: extraterrestrial. They’re any other living being that has not originated from Earth is an alien in this context.
There are an estimated over 700 quintillion planets in our universe. How can someone truly believe our planet is the only one of 700 quintillion to have humans or something akin to us? The odds don’t match up. Kaylie Peters, a CHS senior and a believer in aliens believes that there is too much about our Earth that we don’t know to make assumptions about the rest of the universe.
“There’s so much that we don’t even know about our own world, we’ve only explored about 5% of our oceans,” Peters said. “So who knows what’s in there? It’s very possible that life exists outside of our world.”
There are too many claims of experiences with aliens to merely make extraterrestrial life a coincidence. For all we know, Greek Gods could have been an alien race in ancient Greece. Peters believes strongly in a famous quote by Arthur C. Clarke who said, “Magic is just science we don’t understand.”
“It’s impossible to tell if they really do exist,” Peters said. “But who knows? Maybe they stop by and are just in disguise because they know humans freak out about aliens.”
Peters thinks that one possibility is that aliens are part of a more advanced civilization than we can comprehend. They might be so far advanced that they have been here on Earth but have used their resources to avoid detection.
“They have more knowledge of the unknown than we do,” Peters said. “I kind of believe that they have more understanding of the world, that the worlds that they live in or that the universe, surrounding them and how to manipulate it.”
There have been too many occurrences of people claiming to have seen aliens throughout history for them not to exist. I believe that throughout the immense amount of planets in the universe there has to be at least one other form of intelligent life We might not find out for sure in our lifetime or even in several generations, but never say never.
I do believe that there is just something out there that we just can’t explain whether that be God, or whether that be aliens. I firmly believe that like, there is too much of a like, of a appearance, that it can’t be a coincidence they all something comes from something. Nothing comes from nothing. And so it’s just, it’s I kind of, I believe that.
