Space Enthusiast alert.
In our own cosmic backyard, about 4.4 light years away (thats about almost 3 times the size of our solar system) Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet. Located in a triple star system called Alpha Centauri, this new world revolves around the nearest star to sun, and the smallest of the three - Proxima Centauri. Some scientists speculate that (unlike mars) this planet can actually hold water, enabling life to thrive at the surface.
Although the discovery is currently undergoing the scientific scrutiny, take a step back and think about the possibilities this opens up (if at all our mars missions fail). To be able to travel out of our solar system, the only home human kind has ever known; to inhabit another planet, in a star system that is not ours; this might be perhaps one of our first steps of turning star trek into reality - To discover a whole new world; and to expand our horizons and our reach; and to finally avert the impending doom that awaits humanity, because know it or not, we are killing earth slowly right now, with toxic chemicals, and extensive felling of trees. We may even make this planet harmful for ourselves to inhabit in some distant future, who knows?
Although the time we would take to develop such technology that would take us all the way to Proxima B, may be centuries or even millennia, it is always fun to fantasize - because through most of history, we've always ended up achieving almost everything that most of us claimed were impossible (through theorizing and experimenting and studying of-course). Cellphones two hundred years back would have been considered black magic; and the steam engine was not even in our reach six hundred years ago; a hundred years back we criticized Tesla for claiming that wireless electricity and wireless power transmission are possible, and let other people steal his works (He died alone in a hotel room talking to pigeons :'( )
It is just as Carl Sagan once said - "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." It is just our pursuit of trying to make sense out of things, and this quest for knowledge that drives us, makes us advance through the ages. We may some day in the distant future (we may never know how far though), even get to inhabit Proxima B - We may then be leaving behind a legacy, or we may be the baby bird trying to fly out of its nest for the first time; we may never know - until we do.
Well, as of now,
If anything at all , at least we have a place to escape to if 'you know who' wins the elections.
Thanks for reading all the way down here.
<- Here, have something to think about. #theresemblanceisuncanny
In our own cosmic backyard, about 4.4 light years away (thats about almost 3 times the size of our solar system) Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable planet. Located in a triple star system called Alpha Centauri, this new world revolves around the nearest star to sun, and the smallest of the three - Proxima Centauri. Some scientists speculate that (unlike mars) this planet can actually hold water, enabling life to thrive at the surface.
Although the discovery is currently undergoing the scientific scrutiny, take a step back and think about the possibilities this opens up (if at all our mars missions fail). To be able to travel out of our solar system, the only home human kind has ever known; to inhabit another planet, in a star system that is not ours; this might be perhaps one of our first steps of turning star trek into reality - To discover a whole new world; and to expand our horizons and our reach; and to finally avert the impending doom that awaits humanity, because know it or not, we are killing earth slowly right now, with toxic chemicals, and extensive felling of trees. We may even make this planet harmful for ourselves to inhabit in some distant future, who knows?
Although the time we would take to develop such technology that would take us all the way to Proxima B, may be centuries or even millennia, it is always fun to fantasize - because through most of history, we've always ended up achieving almost everything that most of us claimed were impossible (through theorizing and experimenting and studying of-course). Cellphones two hundred years back would have been considered black magic; and the steam engine was not even in our reach six hundred years ago; a hundred years back we criticized Tesla for claiming that wireless electricity and wireless power transmission are possible, and let other people steal his works (He died alone in a hotel room talking to pigeons :'( )
It is just as Carl Sagan once said - "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." It is just our pursuit of trying to make sense out of things, and this quest for knowledge that drives us, makes us advance through the ages. We may some day in the distant future (we may never know how far though), even get to inhabit Proxima B - We may then be leaving behind a legacy, or we may be the baby bird trying to fly out of its nest for the first time; we may never know - until we do.
Well, as of now,
If anything at all , at least we have a place to escape to if 'you know who' wins the elections.
Thanks for reading all the way down here.
<- Here, have something to think about. #theresemblanceisuncanny
I like the ending AB
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