I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens...

Somewhere in the universe right now, a thought forms. On Earth or somewhere else? In the head of a human or in some alien's? Concerned with what? Communicated through what means? Alive for how long?

No one can or should answer, until they do. I may have just spent a week learning about the universe in physics class (sorry, Clark kids), but no physicist could begin to explain what compelled humans to think about physics in the first place. By that I mean that scientists almost always consider the how questions without even considering why they're asking the questions in the first place. Or, even, what a question is. What an idea is. What a thought is.

I remember hearing one of the critically acclaimed scientists in one of the cosmology videos we watched claim that if just 1 in 10000 planets has conditions similar to Earth, billions Earth-like planets--billions of potential harbors for life--could exist. So, maybe some creature somewhere possesses the ability to process thought like we humans do. Maybe some other world actually houses creatures that imagine and believe and conceive as we do.

But... take one look at how coincidental human existence is--what with the billions of interdependent stimuli that influenced our evolution--and it would be easy to believe that we are very, very alone. What are the chances, for example, that bacteria on another planet (assuming they exist) actually team up symbiotically in order to create eukaryotic cells (the building block of big organisms).
Maybe aliens are shaking their heads as they gaze down at our bickering and fooling around as animals with emotions and thoughts. Maybe what lies in our future is a transcending of these mortal, painful bodies.

But who knows what to think?