The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Earth has only existed for about 4.5 billion of those years. And humans? We've been around for just 200,000. That’s like showing up in the last second of a 24-hour day. What’s even weirder is that 95% of the universe is made up of stuff we can’t even see—dark matter and dark energy. Scientists know it's there, but they don’t know what it is.
Now think about this: Earth orbits at just the right distance from the Sun, not too hot, not too cold. Any closer, we’d burn. Any farther, we’d freeze. We have a magnetic field that protects us from deadly solar radiation. We’ve got a giant planet like Jupiter nearby that acts like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, pulling in asteroids that might have wiped us out. Even our moon helps stabilize Earth’s tilt, giving us seasons.
It’s like everything had to be just right for us to exist. Like some impossible cosmic recipe. So the real question is… was this all a freak accident, or are we part of something we just don’t understand yet? Either way, it’s kind of terrifying.
Now think about this: Earth orbits at just the right distance from the Sun, not too hot, not too cold. Any closer, we’d burn. Any farther, we’d freeze. We have a magnetic field that protects us from deadly solar radiation. We’ve got a giant planet like Jupiter nearby that acts like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, pulling in asteroids that might have wiped us out. Even our moon helps stabilize Earth’s tilt, giving us seasons.
It’s like everything had to be just right for us to exist. Like some impossible cosmic recipe. So the real question is… was this all a freak accident, or are we part of something we just don’t understand yet? Either way, it’s kind of terrifying.
