03-27-2019, 03:44 AM
I agree with both of your opinions. The number of exoplanets having hit 4000 does set into perspective that we are not the center of the universe, in fact we are not even close to it! All of the exoplanets we know about now not only shows people that there is more to our life than what we can see and we are not the most important thing but it brings the possibility of other life forms into the question. Other life could be a positive or a negative discovery, positive as we could learn from and possibly collaborate with these live forms but negative in that we may not know exactly what the life form is and it may not know what we are, leading to possible dangers. Overall, I think the discovery of exoplanets is positive and affects many things here on Earth.