OT: Extrasolar planets discovered directly

[Hunpecked]

Also, who is to that the universe itself is not, or is a life form?

I recall a line from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series on PBS many years ago: "We are a way for the universe to know itself." Since we (and possibly other intelligent species) are part of the universe, then in a sense the universe itself is alive and sentient.

Or maybe just alive...