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"Perfect" may not exist, but don't tell me it doesn't exist because it would be too boring or anything, because.. if perfect is too boring, it isn't perfect at all!!!!! You can actually fill in the 'boring' part with anything that is negative, and actually everything "too" is negative or it wouldn't be "too" either, except "too perfect" which is a contradiction in terms. Actually, any phrase starting with "Perfect is too..." is a contradiction in terms. When are you going to see that, you stupid, pride and unconscious people!!! I am sorry to use this language, but I had to get it out. Any better place for it than on a blog ? Where one feels getting heard, but no-one cares at all. Why do I have to say this? Well, I hate discussions when you start off with the word perfect in them, and if not immediately, somewhere during your story, sómeone will come up with the idea (full of greatness!! Oh yeah!) that perfect...

To reach the closest star to Earth, second to the sun, which is Proxima Centauri, we would have to have launched one of the fastest manned rockets we know today, at ~100.000 years ago, when we were still barbarians, and then we would still only arrive today! And if you know that the amount of stars that we can observe today in our universe is 7 × 10 22 which is a thousand times a billion times a billion stars, it really rocks our mind, doesn't it ? This should give us a bit an insight in how tiny we are! And I must admit that I, personally, sometimes experience difficulties to even imagine how small we are compared to the vastness of our own earth! On another aspect, it shouldn't be too difficult to imagine that if there should be a God or if there should be other life far more evolved than us, it could be possible that our intelligence towards God or towards superintelligent aliens has the same ratio as an amoeba* has towards us, or even far worse. * one of the smallest life ...