And if only one in a million of those had life. And if only one of a million of those had intelligent life, there would still be literally millions of civilizations out there. Obi-Wan Kenobi Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda The Earth is brighter than the sun in the radio spectrum. The future is not written. Our lives are what we make with them. With the 64 bit address lines the Merced will be able to use one million terrabytes of address space, enough to run the Enterprise Holodeck. It takes the sun and its family of planets 226 million years to circle the center of its home galaxy.