Is there life in the universe? Are you serious? The universe abounds with life, teems with life, of such description and diversity as to strain credulity. There are paradise planets, ice planets, swamp planets, desert planets, some the same size as Earth, but most a little smaller, with some no bigger than New Jersey. There are giants, too; Jupiter-sized and bigger. Twin planets, triplet plants, dual suns... think it, it's out there.
Inhabitants? How about Reptile people a hundred times more intelligent than humans? Or Bird people, Cat people, people who design their own bodies! On the vast, encompassing scale of evolution, Earth and homo sapiens are not the bottom of the barrel, but we're definitely in the lower third.
We think we're alone mainly because we've had the misfortune to flame into existence in a butt-fuck section of the universe where almost nothing ever happens. Every planet we've ever known besides ours is dead - stone dead; no relics, no history, nothing. Small wonder we think we may be the only ones here.
Of course, by now you're asking, 'How do I know this? What makes me so all-knowing, and with such specificity, yet? Easy. Freddy Muller told me, and Freddy's been there.
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Five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in December,1945. A Martin PBM Mariner dispatched as a rescue plane exploded in mid-flight. There were no survivors of these incidents, and no wreckage was ever recovered until August 2010, when a treasure hunter searching for a sunken Spanish galleon found one almost perfectly preserved Avenger, complete with the skeletal remains of its crew.
