‘It is arrogant of humans to assume as a given that we are the only life form in the universe,’ said Mikhailov. ‘Our sun is just one star among the two hundred to four hundred billion stars in our galaxy—the Milky Way. And remember that the universe consists of two trillion galaxies like the Milky Way. If we were to represent the entire universe as Earth, then Earth itself would proportionally be the size of a billionth of a pinhead. So it does seem strange that we can even entertain the notion that we are unique.’
