As many stars as there are in this galaxy alone, let alone other galaxies, the past, and the future? Earth-like planets probably tend to produce Earth-like life. Biodiversity is high here. Some traits evolved independently in different species multiple times, so those same traits probably did pretty well on similar planets too. Plants probably look mostly the same. Bugs, mammals, reptiles, birds, microorganisms, amphibians, fungus, and fish all fill their biological niches. Some have weird, flashy characteristics that attract mates and don't really serve any other purpose but it's mostly just traits that aid in survival with little regard for aesthetics. Sapient life has to exist on countless other planets as well, and some of those have a roughly similar level of technology and society. What I'm getting at is this: you know when you need gas, so you stop at one of many gas stations along the highway to get it, go into the store and buy something to snack on while you're in there, and on the way out a drug addict approaches you and begs you for money, then you get back on the highway and sit in traffic again? I guarantee this isn't the only planet where that (and other similarly mundane and annoying things) happen regularly. It's just weird when you think about it. There were crackheads at the 7/11 with wasp nests in some of the nooks and crannies around the building and anthills in the cracks on pavement with a full view of the traffic that's at a dead stop on a different planet somewhere millions of years ago, and they'll be there again on some other planet millions of years from now. Might not be fossil fuels - could be hydrogen, propane, electricity, ethanol, etc. but the point remains there's some kind of vehicle that needs some kind of fuel which is exchanged for some kind of currency.
Not all alien life is scifi-esque and weird but it's interesting to think that we're probably not alone in the mundane and annoying day-to-day stuff we deal with, even if we might never meet or even know about the aliens out there living just like us.
Submitted March 16, 2022 at 11:17PM by PiratesOfTheAss https://ift.tt/m98Zcn7
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