I'm in agreement with the blue dot notion. That's the flipside
of the "how improbable it seems that communication happens at
all."
Sometimes I liken life on earth to a giant slime mold that's
existed for millions of years, that we are a part of. I enjoy
going to extremes to help clarify my thinking smile emoticon
In short, the differences only seem magnified but they're
typically minor and statistically barely even there.