A Worm in Eden

What would happen in the future if we discover we are alone? Wouldn't we decide that it is our destiny to seed the universe? Wouldn't we risk everything to send out those Seeds, to fill a galaxy with life? What if we were wrong? What would happen then? What would happen if one of those Seeds went astray, far out into intergalactic space? If it lay dormant for a thousand years while the rest of the world came out to meet it? If its children grew up thinking they were alone, so very alone? Wh...