Humans: a race of know-it-alls

Ya know folks, we humans are a buncha fat, pompous pigs. I mean, really, we honestly do think that we are the most intelligent people in the universe. We think that we are the center of the universe.

What do I mean? Let's take the human genome as an example. When we mapped it out, we could only find out what a tiny percentage of it actually did. Something like 10%. The other 90%, according to self-proclaimed "experts", is completely meaningless. That's right, folks, just because we can't figure out what it is, it obviously doesn't mean anything. We believe that we are so intelligent and so superior, that we actually have the nerve to say that anything we can't explain the purpose of does not have any purpose. Now let's try dark matter as another example. Scientists, presumably astronomers but usually referred to in the media as scientists, claim that there are vast pockets of dark matter. They don't know the properties of this matter, but they're certain that they are all the same and are definitely not just pockets of stuff that we can't see. Dark matter my ass! It's called a crappy telescope. Get a better one.

But we humans are pompous in other, more subtler ways. You see, we use a twisted form of logic that can be understood by anyone. This logic is that all races in the universe must exist only on worlds that are exactly the same as earth-that's what people are saying now. Sure, I can understand looking for planets like earth because, after all, if life formed here, it must be able to form under the same conditions elsewhere. But the real problem is that we are now saying that the only way life can form is under the exact same conditions that happened here on earth a few billion years ago. That's right, folks. The only way life can exist is if there's the highly volatile oxygen gas, the not very common water, and a medium distance from the sun.

What's the problem with that, you might ask? Here's the problem: what about all the other chemicals and gasses? What makes oxygen and water so special? Frankly, I wouldn't be too surprised if life formed on a planet with an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter. I can see life forming there-life that's very resistant to radiation, but it's still possible. In fact, life has formed in highly radioactive conditions. They've actually found life forming in nuclear reactors-and I'm talking about the most radioactive parts of the reactors. If life can form there, than obviously earth-like conditions are not the only possible way to have life-forms.

My point is that we humans are not that special. We can say that we know everything, but if you think about it, up until Einstein came around we thought we had it all figured out. Then he came and pooped everybody's party. Why? Because we did not have it right, even if we believed we did so much. Come to think of it, in another hundred years we could have a completely different view on everything around us. We don't know everything and we should never assume that we do. Think about it, folks.