weāre so humanocentric itās infuriating. just because we canāt live there doesnāt mean nothing can! like, never mind aliens, we do this with our own fucking planet! scientists used to think nothing could possibly live at the bottom of the oceans, because āall life needs sunlight to survive, of course!ā yet what did we find when we invented submarines that could go deep enough? the barren wasteland the scientists were expecting? fuck no! the bottom of the sea is teeming with all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures even wackier than anything they ever came up with in star trek! when we discover aliens, we probably wonāt even fucking realise it, because theyāll be so different from what weāre used to as ālifeā, we wonāt even recognise them as living beings