DISTURBING because you may never get to know if, indeed, there is life beyond earth.
Astronomers are generally agreed on the probability of life in outer space.
Renowned astronomers such as Bill Cochran of the University of Texas in the United States argue that Earth is merely a planet around what is a very common, boring star - the Sun - and that there are literally millions of other Suns as centres of other galaxies. They argue that there may be an Earth like planet with life on it, around at least one of those millions of other stars.