'The universe doesn't give us meaning, we give it meaning.'

I kind of agree. Maybe we as conscious beings are alone in the universe but life is much more than that. As an electro-chemical machine it seems to me that elements enjoy clumping together to make certain reactions possible, leading  to more and more complex ones till some sort of consciousness forms and this is an illusion created by the underling  biochemistry. There may/may not be  other aware being in the universe but I believe given time some sort of life is/was inevitable....
But, I could be wrong.

We are definitely not alone. The universe is so damn big. Somewhere are some entities with conciousness. Exciting

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I think it is very conceited of us to believe that we are alone in the vastness of space. There are 10 times more stars in the night sky than grains of sand in the world's deserts and beaches, scientists say. [Link to Telegraph article about ratio of stars to sand](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1436902/More-stars-than-grains-of-sand.html)
I actually wrote a post on this about 2 days ago when the UFO was spoted over Arizona. I would be honored if you gave it a read and maybe gave some pointers on what i could improve on. [Link to my post ](https://steemit.com/busy/@doomsdaychassis/ufo-reported-over-arizona-are-we-alone) Sorry  if it is poor etiquette to drop links. Let me know and i will remove it. I apologize in advance if that is the case.

Interesting views of an earthly spirit. Everything is relative, as is the view of each individual. That's the way it is.

This got me thinking deep and laughing at the same time 
>If we imagine ourselves as the only intelligent beings in the universe, the first, the genesis blocks of consciousness, how important are we? From a state of universal meaning, no more or less important than the quark. We may not understand it all, we might not see the bigger picture but we do not know where all of this may lead.

On the contrary I think that not knowing where all of this will lead to is what makes us or should make us quarks rather and not from the point of thinking that we are the only intelligent beings in the world.
This post is quite deep and thought provoking, well done.

...taking god out of it (it messes with my logic), and mathematically speaking - it's seems pretty improbable that we are the only 'life' in the entire universe.

Not necessarily sentient or intelligent -( _now that_ might be just an evolutionary error! lol)

IF we are the only life in the universe - and sentient to boot - then you could say everyone on this planet, (before us - or yet to be born) - has pretty much won the biggest universal lottery ticket  in existence, every single day that they are alive...

Did intelligence develop anywhere else? Well, I think it depends what you mean 'intelligence'. Could it be that there are some other intelligences among us already? 

Dolphins? Dogs? Oohh - do they make dolphin-dogs yet?

To me, this makes it seem likely that anywhere life gets a toehold, intelligence will develop.

Anyway, the famous Drake Equation most often yields 'likely other intelligences' as answer, and I think whatever the case, that is the best way to view the world. 

If we are the only intelligence or life that has occurred, that is one VERY heavy responsibility. I prefer a whimsical outlook.

>It is quite interesting how little actual evidence there is considering the amount of belief that there is life out there somewhere, let alone intelligent life.

No different then the level of belief in God or Gods that many people have. The "proof" is nothing more then some writings from a long time ago. It's a blind faith.

I got an interesting email this week about measuring the inside of our 66 Ford. I asked why, and it has to do with proving or disproving some UFO photos from many years ago. There's a theory this person set up models and there's photographic investigation happening. I thought that was pretty cool.  Usually, when I get an email like this it's so a designer can reproduce it.  I get requests for all kinds of vintage stuff they want to reproduce.

- God  : There is no evidence . Only signs handed down through generations 

-  "Do you think 'we are not alone " Some say the universe is so big that there has to be life out there . But of course they are not talking about intelligent life to talking about a cell or ameba . When you look at a distant Galaxy it's so far away that it takes the light thousands of years to get here . So if you do discover something your looking at it's past , you don't even know it still exist . I do not believe in time travel or that you can travel faster than the speed of light . To me it is not a question of is it a Possibility But one of probability .

- Boom, boom, bang : We know that everything is energy what we don't know is where the energy originate it from . Is a question that has no answer .

- Maybe it has taken the 13.8 billion : That's a guess an estimation because we cannot see  light that is older than that Or traveled further than that .

- It is possible that right now, the only reason the universe has any significance at all is because of us.

as they say  "aint that a hoot" if it were true

In the meantime let us put our seatbelts on , lock our doors . Put a security system around the house so that we can sleep at night .