One of our Founding Fathers Thomas Paine commented,

“The probability, therefore, is that each of these fixed stars is also a Sun, round which another system of worlds or planets, though too remote for us to discover, performs its revolutions, as our system of worlds does round our central Sun.”

Another of our Founding Fathers, John Adams, shared astronomers’ speculation at the time,

“Astronomers tell us, with good Reason, that not only all the Planets and Satellites in our Solar System, but all the unnumbered Worlds that revolve around the Fixt (sic) stars are inhabited, as well as this Globe of Earth.”