Humanity Is Insignificant With The Context Of Cosmos
The universe is filled up with intelligent extraterrestrial life and it’s so big that humanity just seems pointless. Compared to the universe we are nothing. The universe for what we are able to observe it’s at least 93 billion light-years, while Earth is believed to be 4.543 billion years old. The existence of human life has been proven to only demolish everything it has been influenced. Humanity is insignificant in the context of cosmos because we are just nothing compared to the cosmos. Humanity it’s just a small planet revolving around the sun, next to bigger planets.
In addition, Humans have been polluting Earth for thousands of years and with so many habitats in the planet, the resources are becoming shorter and shorter. The Guardian Newspaper did a study that shows that the world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things. This just proves that humanity destroys everything that it can and it will continue. Humanity’s not only polluting earth, but humans are also trying to get to Mars. Humanity it’s trying to destroy other planets. Humanity is just trying to demolish and consume everything and everyone.
In addition, Humans are just a very small part of the universe and eventually, human life will be nonexistent, when humanity comes to its end, the universe will not change because humanity is nothing compared to the universe. The cosmos is huge and because a small tiny piece of the universe it’s gone, it won’t change its cycle and it will continue to exist and function the same way it has been. Also, the universe is huge, the National Center for Biotechnology Information states that “The universe is immense, and we are so very tiny. When we contemplate the vastness of the universe we inhabit, our boring location, and our inevitable future destruction, human life can seem utterly insignificant.” Humans are the cosmos. Carl Sagan believed that the universe was using us to know itself. If it’s using planet earth it must be using other planets too, we are not the biggest planet in the solar system, that said if we disappeared the universe would have other planets and other celestial bodies to get to know itself.
As a matter of fact, The knowledge that we have in the origin of cosmos is limited and there has not been proven that there is no life outside of Earth, humans could be massively important if they were the only life in the universe, but, we don’t have the knowledge nor the evidence that humans are the only ones in the universe, because it has not been explored. Guy Kahain an Oxford-based moral philosopher states that “If we’re alone in the universe, we are massively significant.“ There is no evidence that there isn’t life outside of earth. There are studies from NASA that prove that life outside of earth it’s a big probability, NASA’s 2015 Astrobiology Strategy states that ‘Complex life may evolve into systems that can employ technology in ways that may be observable. Nobody knows the probability, but we know that it is not zero.”(1) This saying that life outside earth it’s probably way more intelligent than humans and proving once again that humanity is insignificant not only because of its comparison to the size of the universe but also it’s knowledge and its technological advances.
The conclusion is that Human life is insignificant and that Stephen Hawking was right when he said that “we are just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.” Humanity is just a plague that is trying to get its hand on everything it can and destroy it. Humans have very little knowledge on the cosmos and its origin, The fact that humans have not found any actual proof but statistics about any life outside of Earth just proves that we are too unimportant to be worth considering. If humans were to have a purpose why haven’t we gone anywhere beyond the moon?.