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problem.
Pure fact is all well and good when dealing with a logical environment but we have come across the illogical. The infinite vastness of space, the infinite smallness of matter. Blackholes and above all, who what when and where started everything in the first place.
We do have reason to be concerned because developments in our knowledge of the solar system are essential for our survival. As development and growth is what we thrive for. I am not proposing that Mrs Biggins from Leicester should be given command of a space shuttle or John Smith, car salesman have weeks allocated with the Hubbell telescope. But if they had an idea! Their input might be of more value to that of someone with all the PhDs. With all the technology around today, progress is too slow and after a lot of reading the conclusion I have come to is that those trained in Astromic have lost sight of what is fundamentally, exploring.
Exploring takes guts and hard work, it can be fun but most importantly it requires ingenuity. It's not fluke that Columbus found America when he did, he had a feeling that there was more land in the West direction and he was right. America was the last great find in an era of exploration on the earth. We now, metaphorically, are at a stage when man first came out of the cave, only we seem to be stuck for ideas.
Why should the knowledge of the universe affect our survival? I will tell you why! The way things are going we will have enough problems with famine, disease, global-warming, etc., etc. It is not going to get better over night. It is my opinion that we are now at our peak and perhaps have been for decades, if we don't get serious now, our chance will pass. Other things will take over the daily routine, war, hunger and greed. The thing we praise most about ourselves, our humanity, will be lost.
May be being able to find a planet with a suitable environment or living in a space station wont solve our earthly problems but may be it will. One thing though that definitely will not help is us wasting our resources.
The Future
I have a theory! It is a theory I have never heard of before; so what am I to think? 1. That there is a major flaw in my theory that I haven't thought of. 2. That others have thought of it too but it is so insignificant that it's not worth mentioning. Or 3. That I have hit on a brilliant idea that no one else has ever really thought much about.
The reader may have got an idea of what the theory is from the "Past" section. It is very simple in principle, it basically says that the solar system evolves like anything else in nature. The planets are plentiful in comparison to the sun and have shorter life spans. The nearest planet to the sun is the first to become a living planet. As the sun gets hotter the other planets in turn become living breathing environments like the earth is today.
Most of my attention of late has been focused towards Venus. According to my theory Venus would have been the last planet to have been in a living state. This fits in very well as Venus has a thick atmosphere and is very warm, perhaps a bit too warm. It is so warm because of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which we know, here on earth stops the heat escaping from the atmosphere. Now open-minded people who can conceive that other beings might exist could understand that if they had populated Venus as a beautiful healthy planet before all the carbon dioxide built up. This could well indicate the presence of an intelligent species.
It is all very well condemning this idea to pure fantasy, the scientists may claim it is a one in a million chance but when you look at how they have arrived at this figure you understand that they may have missed the point. The fact is nobody really knows anything for definite and when the scientist's theories don't quite add up we have got to allow for the
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