I don't get the part about why it would be interesting if aliens dissected us. That wouldn't be interesting, that would be pretty fvcking scary if you ask me!
I do often wonder though why primates are the only animals that developed species of high intelligence. There's no reason that it couldn't have been dolphins, or dogs or elephants rather than monkeys. I mean imagine that, maybe on some other planet, it was dogs rather than apes that spawned an intelligent species and there could be entire advanced civilizations where dogs are building computers, flying into space and the things we primates do here on earth. May sound crazy, but why not? If monkeys made the jump to advanced intelligence, why not other types of animals?
I find myself just mesmerized when I think of all the things that had to line up just right to have what we see before us. Every single human is a miracle, because the odds against us being here in a random universe are astronomical beyond words. We are lucky that we live on a planet at just the right distance to be neither too hot or too cold. One that has adequate water. That has gas giants in the outer solar system to help shield us from extinction level events with their mass gravity. That we have the Van Allen radiation belts and magnetosphere to protect us from the rays from the sun that would fry us if they weren't there. That we don't live live in a part of the galaxy with lots of supernovas or we'd have been fried long ago by gamma radiation, that the sun is a metal rich star that we need to have terrestrial planets as opposed to just gas giants like Jupiter. That we rotate rather instead of being stationary like some planets, otherwise, half the earth would be permanent daylight and an inferno, while the night side would be completely frozen. That we have a moon that has helped absorb asteroid hits(look at all the craters, those could've hit earth but hit the moon instead and wiped us out). That the sun is very stable, most stars in the sky are too unstable to support life. Now just all those conditions lining up right is mind-blowing in itself. Then you think about how our entire civilization and recorded history has occured within a time that is just a blink on the cosmic scale, nothing more than a break between ice-ages. That eventually another asteroid will hit the earth and wipe us out like the dinosaurs, hitting the reset button once again on evolution. That we've survived through all this makes us all miracles. Each one of us. We need to stop killing each other. Wouldn't it be the ultimate tragedy if despite the one in a billion odds of the universe lining up just right to make our lives possible that we blew ourselves up in an all out nuclear war?
