>Why is there so many Stars around us if we can't reach any?

Because the universe wasn't built for us. This is a very self centered take on the cosmos.

is why really a valid question in regards to the existence of anything in the natural world?

I think its simple. You don't need to understand to appreciate all that space is, much like you don't need to be 200 years old to enjoy life.

> Why is there so many Stars around us if we can't reach any?

Open-world game developers know the importance of an "infinite horizon".

Why is there so much water in the ocean if we can’t possibly explore it all?

I share your fascination. I don't think the universe exists for our comprehension, we exist within it regardless of our best description of it.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

Please - the simulation is having hard enough a time generating one planet for us as it is!

There's no answer to your question, per se, because there wasn't anything deciding where to place things in the universe. Our perspective is what it is, because earth has had life supporting conditions long enough for life to form, and long enough for us to evolve into beings which can observe and wonder why.

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I enjoy the fact that none of the great questions about life have been answered. So for me, it bodes well that we are in for a pretty cool surprise. Almost like being ants and wondering why these giants we see ocassionally walk by never stop and tell us what it's all about. I hope one day we'll be big enough.

The universe isn't here for us, we're just a byproduct of it searching for better ways to increase entropy - which life is quite excellent at, since the whole concept of life is that it actively seeks out available energy gradients to ride, and cracks stored energy out of local minima.

That there's unimaginable mountains of available energy out there for us to do something interesting with is nice for us and nice for the universe - but it really doesn't care if we're the ones to go get it, or if it eventually burns some other way.

I want to have a nice time, so I definitely think we should go out there and grab it - but I also think we should do the most interesting things possible with it rather than squandering it, and if ever we find anyone else out there helping the universe with its goal of increasing entropy and being interesting, hopefully we can increase how complex society is in association with them rather than do something stupid and wasteful.

And fwiw, damaging our ability to increase entropy by riding the energy gradients on this planet too hard before we get sustainable space colonies going is definitely under the banner of 'stupid and wasteful' in my book - but at the same time we shouldn't be so careful that those space colonies and further leveraging of energy gradients available elsewhere never happen.

It would be wonderful if we can restore the environment here to a more pristine state for our species' psychological health, but the universe doesn't care about that - that's all on us.