People are so caught up in Earth problems. People are always thinking when you die, it's the end, there's nothing. Either that or a happy or horrible eternal afterlife. They don't even stop to question what eternity means. Here's an interesting story: A man died from his heart attack at the hospital. For about 10-15 minutes, they tried everything to bring him back to life. After that amount of time, it's past the point of no return. They stopped operating and shocking him. He surprisingly got up. That's not the interesting part. He actually was able to describe in full detail, the entire operation and all words that were said, every movement as well. His eyes were closed and his view was blocked even if they were open. He told the story as if he was standing by the door watching. They described it as impossible, but couldn't deny it was all true. Things like this happen sometimes, so it makes me think, I could be a ghost. What would I do for eternity as a ghost, after I've done everything I could think of?

I never mentioned death as the end. I just don't think on the grand scale you seemed to mention, because we'll never affect it. Even if we manage to somehow get 10 trillion population in the next year, and each of them explores a new planet every second for the rest of their life, we'd never even explore .00000000001% of what exists. So why bother with that stuff? I think more towards what happens after (if at all), and thing that affect my current being. They are, afterall, what is affecting me now.

Why would you need to make yourself known? For what purpose would there be to bring attention to Earth and Humans? It's not really a great feat, in fact, anything could wipe us out in a second. It's more about the journey. The whole point of life is [i]here[/i] and [i]now[/i]. The journey itself is also the point. If you had the opportunity to travel the universe, would you? Or, would you rather stay home, in your town with friends, because it's what you know, and are comfortable with? People don't like to learn, because the truth is scary to them. They are afraid to be wrong. They are afraid to die. They put themselves in a shell and never come out, like hiding under the covers. I for one, I would love to learn all I could learn, and see all I could see.