# What do you wonder about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062 "2026-06-20T22:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/60 "2026-06-22T11:20:22Z")
> [@knavette57](#): > > As you seem to, I wonder about the mysteriousness of the universe. I find it somewhat…distressing to think that all life on Earth is just due to vast amounts time, trillions of chemical reactions, and add to it all the layers of physics (I am not a scientist, be patient with me if I am explaining poorly)… and all that mix of slush, heat and cold, movement, etc…created life. If you’re interested, **[here’s a video I posted recently](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-reached-the-point-when-it-is-kooky-to-not-believe-in-massive-amounts-of-intelligent-life-having-evolved-throughout-the-universe/969972/709)** (along with some comments) about hypotheses related to the origin of life, the probability thereof, and therefore the likelihood of alien life even if conditions are optimal. In fact the whole thread is a pretty good read. The formation of life from inorganic chemicals, a process called abiogenesis, might possibly involve some extremely improbable processes that just happened to occur here by sheer accident. I personally don’t believe that, but it’s one of the hypotheses that’s been proposed to explain the Fermi paradox. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > I wonder why aren’t people nicer to each other. It feels good to be that way, and think that way, and makes the world a better place. It only feels good if you’re predisposed that way. But not everyone is, or we wouldn’t have evil in the world. Some people are just selfish, others indifferent to the plight of others, and some are actually motivated by cruelty, being marginal or perhaps all-out sociopaths. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062)._