The power of scale

I've had this thought for sometime now and it will not leave me.

To start off I just want to say that I 100% believe in life existing elsewhere in the universe. I do not buy into the unique Earth argument saying that we are on the only planet out of trillions that can house life.

Here is my one problem with life elsewhere. Scale.

Yes scale. As in size differences. The average person now realizes that people are small. Hell, Earth is small. VERY small. The Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun. It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun to Earth. However we orbit one of billions of stars in this galaxy that is one of billions of galaxies. It takes light 100,000 years to go from one end of the milky way to the other by the way. we are 8 minutes of 100,000 years for 1 galaxy. But I digress.

Scale. For example the largest star we have observed is VY Canis Majoris. It is 1,556,534,837 to 1,816,267,995 miles across and takes light 8 hours to travel around its equator. Compare that to our sun. It only takes light 14.5 seconds to go around our sun. Oh, and our sun is 1,000,000 times the size of earth.

Now imagine if you will that a planet was in orbit to this Hypergiant. Now lets assume that this planet in orbit is 1,000,000 times smaller than VY Canis Majoris.

That planet would still be larger than our sun.

Now lets say creatures evolved on this planet in the same scale as humans to earth.

These aliens would in fact be larger than our moon. They would look at the earth like a slightly over sized rock that they could sit on when they were tired of hiking all day.

I don't think that propulsion technologies is going to be the thing to hinder our contact to other life forms. I believe it will be our size differences. Whether we are too large or too small.

Who knows though, perhaps nature has dictated a certain size/build for sentient life. Still a crazy thought that there could be creatures the size of our sun out there.