Bryson Reading Chapters 2 and 3

Question: Is it possible for other life-forms like ourselves to even exist in the entire universe? Let alone in our Galaxy?

Quote: "What and interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of... so far beyond us as to be, well, just beyond us."

Comment: Bryson began coming up with really interesting points on how far things were. It was very interesting to find out that even if we could travel at the speed of light, the traveler wouldn't make it to Oort Cloud in back in his lifetime. I also found it particularly interesting when he began talking about the Oort cloud and had specific speeds about the comets and how long it would take for it to reach Earth. I'm still a little confused as to how they know that much about something they've never seen. How do they even know that there's an Oort Cloud out there?

Bryson Reading Intro and Chapter 1

Question: If atoms are not living creatures and have no idea as to what they are doing, then how are they able to form a human being then shut down disassemble then turn into something else?

Quote: ''To begin with, for you to be here now... they will answer to a single overarching impulse: to keep you you.''

Comment: I was really pulled in at the beginning when it began talkig about how atoms aren't living things, that they don't even know they're not alive they just float around forming into different things. It really broadened my ideas as to what others believe on how the Earth was formed. Even though I'm a Christian, Bryson has caught my attention in a way that I'm looking forward to continue the next read by him.