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Future generations may discover that planets like Mars are as close as we will ever get to finding a planet, as inhospitable as it seems, upon which we can actually walk. In watching the Discovery series on NASA I was struck by the fact that all the Astonauts who went to Earths moon were overcome by just what an oasis Earth is when compared with the surface of that moon and space itself which is utterly lifeless. It's either a one in a (insert inconceivable number) fluke or else some entity(s) set about it willfully. People who expect to find carbon based lifeforms hanging out in this particular neighborhood are overly hopeful, IMO. If we are the result of random circumstances, then we may be the only ones or else the others are so far away that we may as well be alone.