A Theory of Everything
The Kepler data broke me. I had to acknowledge that the Drake Equation was nothing more than science fiction, and that life may have only ever evolved here in our solar system. But I still want to be Agnostic about aliens, so here's my grand theory of evolution, gods, aliens, and life only forming here in our solar system out of all of the planetary systems that we are aware of. The Kepler observatory was designed to specifically look for planets. After looking at 42,000 class G stars similar in size to our Sun they were able to identify 2,000 stars that were edge-on towards us so that we could see the gravitational planes of their planetary systems, and then we could count as the planets would pass in front of the star. That was how we found out that none of the 2,000 stars had planetary systems like ours, and that 80% of them had only 1 planet, typically a planet like our Jupiter orbiting very close to the Sun, just the two of them wit...