you know what’s the funny thing about looking for life in space

ppl say that when we look at the stars, we are seeing the past. how come? well if the star is 100,000 light years away from us, her light will only arrive on Earth 100,000 years after it was created.

that means we are looking at something that happened 100k years ago

but think about planets. that is true for them too. if you find a planet 20,000 light years from us, and you look for life there, you are looking at how this planet was 20k years ago.

“if someone 65 million years distant pointed a telescope at Earth, they would see dinosaurs”

another planets could have life now this moment.

we just don’t know.