Within 100 million years, we went from organic molecules to self replicating life. So whatever life was doing on earth, it was highly opportunistic. To assert that we are alone in the universe can only be done based on some philosophy that has no foundation in science. It'd be kind of cool though, if like they land it and they were on their version of what we had as the crusades. Oh, oh, except that they do it on an intergalactic basis. Yeah. Chuck desperately wants to write a screenplay.
Why does the universe exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about black holes, wormholes, the expansion of the universe and more! What are our options to solve the crisis in cosmology?
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