In a galaxy far, far away….

Last night while I sat and wondered about the heavenly body above me seeing clearly so many stars twinkling in the night time sky out in the desert where I live. Some stars I saw are actually galaxies containing billions of stars. The stars and planets are exceptional to see where I live due to the fact there is little or no light pollution that would visually limit the number of stars I’d see high up on the desert floor at an elevation of 4300 feet. Last night I watched a movie called “K-PAX” where “prot” described a highly advanced civilization by million of years located in our own galaxy hundreds of light years away begged the one question I had that night. Are there any deaf aliens out there?

Whooooooo! (alien noise)

Earth resides in a galaxy called “The Milky Way” where our Solar System with our sun (it’s a star, too, folks) is home among billions of other stars going about spinning together on a pinwheel shaped galaxy. One galaxy has billions of stars (or suns). But there are possibly billions of galaxies in the universe according to many astrophysicists. That would be, using our math, billions times billions make what? A lot of stars. Something like a septillion stars (that’s a “1” followed by 21 zeros) out there. We don’t even have that many sand particles on our planet that even come near it. It is just unfathomly huge. So, what are the odds of finding a similar planet among all those stars that has a similar Earth-like system containing carbon-based life forms? Or home to beings similar to us? Do they even exist? And if the possibility that they do exist where a whole different race of highly intelligent beings may be intellectually light years ahead of us then chances are, of course, that no Deaf/deaf people would exist on that planet. But why would that be the case? Could it be that since they’re a highly advanced race of people they would view deafness as unnecessary and perhaps even cruel to have? Perhaps it’d be a civilization so advanced that equality is required for all where no forms of disability would exist (i.e. no Alzheimer, Parkinson, paralysis, hearing loss, blindness and so forth). Maybe they’d be so advanced that everybody communicates telepathically instead and that the ability to hear or speak would not be required? Or perhaps instead they have a universal spoken language that everybody uses. I can’t see how or why an advanced race of beings with their scientific and technological knowledge thousands to million of years ahead of us would allow a variety of disabilities to exist or persist.

Something to ponder, folks. Meanwhile, I have a light beam to catch. And keep your snit level down to a minimum, folks.