How to change our life if scientists will prove that we are alone in the Universe?

the Possibility that the Earth — the only inhabited place in the Universe, really exists and is often seen in the context of the hypothesis of a “unique Earth”

Man has always sought to find in the Universe someone who could share his existential loneliness. Despite the fact that modern telescopes can see even in the most distant corners of the Universe, we never found a hint at least for the simplest life. Does this mean that we are really alone in the Universe? And if so, how this realization might affect science and society as a whole?

Hypothesis “unique Earth”

incredibly huge. So, our home galaxy the milky Way has 100 billion stars, while the visible universe has more than a trillion of galaxies of various sizes and shapes. Even if you consider that habitable worlds may be extremely rare, the number of open exoplanets in the us Universe indicates that planets orbiting distant star systems, maybe even more than the stars themselves. So where is everyone? For the first time this question was asked of the famous Italian physicist of the XX century , one of the first in the history of science, questioned the possibility of finding a man of any alien civilizations.

Can life be something truly unique in the Universe? An international project to find and study traces of alien life in the Universe, showed that despite the huge number of exoplanets discovered by man, none of the hypothetically available to them civilizations is in no hurry to meet with the grounders. The reasons for this may be a great variety: some of the researchers believe that our universe is founded on the principle a Grand matrix, someone seriously believes that we live in a peculiar and highly developed alien civilization simply do not want to contact us, and someone with enthusiasm suggests that the Earth — a unique place that could embody the extremely low, almost tending to absolute zero, the probability of the origin of life at all.

SETI Project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) aims to search and explore potential habitable exoplanets

Evolution can answer the question about the origin of life on extrasolar planets

In order to answer the question about the existence of life on one or another planet, we can bring in our quest for the concept of evolution. Examining the 4.5 billion years of Earth's history, we can come to rather interesting conclusion that evolution is a property of repetition. As reported , the evolutionary processes occurring in living organisms, often repeated due to the fact that different species independently from each other, come to similar results. A striking example of such behavior can be an extinct Australian marsupial thylacine, which had a bag similar to the kangaroo pocket, while having all the characteristics typical of a wolf. It is noteworthy that the entire evolutionary history of Australia, in long-term isolation from the rest of the world from the time of the dinosaurs, is parallel to other continents.

This convergence, we see if we consider the individual bodies of living beings. So, the eyes could develop not only in vertebrate species, but in octopuses, arthropods, jellyfish, and worms, which may indicate that nature always tends to use similar solutions to complex problems. Surprisingly, many critical events in our evolutionary history unique and perhaps incredible. One of them can rightly be considered the skeleton of vertebrates, which allows large animals to move on land. Complex eukaryotic cells, from which are built all the animals and plants containing nucleus and mitochondria, evolved only once. Photosynthesis, which increased the available life-giving energy and produced oxygen, is a single evolutionary process that makes it truly unique phenomenon not only on Earth but in the Universe.

in order to be able to happen the emergence of man and his intellect, nature had to observe countless conditions

Moreover, the appearance of all of these events were dependent on each other. People could not evolve as long as the fish has not appeared the bones, allowing them to crawl out on land. Bones could not develop until there were complex animals. Complex animals, in turn, needed in complex cells, and complex cells in need of oxygen produced by photosynthesis. Thus it turns out that in nature nothing happens without the evolution of life, which manifests itself gradually and step by step, covering in its development billions of years. Such a long and complex development of natural “technologies” proves once again their extreme improbability, which eventually led to the emergence of human intelligence.

that the Earth is unique in the Universe, can point to the many indirect factors

A Similar accident can be like that, as if life on our planet constantly would be pulling a lottery ticket, which would allow originated on her life continue to evolve. In other worlds, suchcritical adaptation could begin to develop too late to mind had a chance to appear before a nearby star became a supernova. Or not appeared.

Considering that the origin of human intelligence depends on a highly unlikely chain of events, which manifested itself in the emergence of complex cells, photosynthesis, sexual division, of animals, people and their ability to know the world, the chances of intelligent life in the Universe becomes extremely low, which would confirm the theory of the supporters of the “unique Earth”.

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will there be any Change in our life if scientists one day prove the theory about the uniqueness of the Earth?

Despite the fact that our planet may be the only “living world” in the Universe, “the Great silence” our neighbors can give mankind the opportunity to realize their uniqueness, thus changing the existing socio-political system and making it more scientific, to understanding oneself and the world around us. Sounds, of course, as one of utopias, but what if this is the essence of human life, which is wonderfully illustrated “Solaris” by Andrei Tarkovsky: we need to explore, understand and transform the surrounding Universe, to transform a lifeless space into a world similar to Earth.