Posted on 10/27/2020 9:54:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“We have been to the Moon.”
Yes, but only 6 specific locations; like landing on Long Island visiting 6 towns and declaring you’ve seen everything on Earth.
“We have brought back some of the Moon and analyzed it.”
Yes, but only analyzed a small portion of the samples recovered.
“We found nothing, nada, zilch. Get over it.”
What were we supposed to be looking for that we didn’t find? Its called exploration.
Cause eventually we’re not going to be able to live here. If it’s not an ice age, it will be an asteroid, or pole reversal, and even if we avoid everything else some day the sun will turn off. If we want anything we’ve accomplished to matter the human egg must be in more than one basket.
As far as water available in space is concerned, I hold that if we fail to leave cradle Earth and TRY to live elsewhere, we are failing to grow. Closed systems, the ones without frontiers, are ones with authoritarian governments and I regard that as a bad thing.
So it is good to find water on planets and moons but match capabilities to horizons. In open space there are comets and the remains of comets. Most comets have masses in millions of kilograms and water forms a large portion of their content. While their capture / redirection is beyond our current technology, a mere 117 years ago there was no sustained heavier-than-air flight! Could we crash a redirected comet into the moon in the next century? Would you bet against it?
We’ve been to the moon and we’ve even been to Mars... Signs of life. Zip, zilch, none... Vast empty wastelands... Plenty of ‘em... With no life to be found.
Earth is blessed (literally, I believe) with so many unique features besides chemistry. Distance from our star, a spinning iron core producing a magnetic shield against radiation, an atmosphere that burns up most of the things that fall down our gravity well, a binary system with a satellite large enough to produce tides and (usually) benevolent weather, and more. It's all unique for our solar system. Beyond that, though, in the farther reaches? When you're counting in billions of systems the odds change.
Earth is blessed (literally, I believe) with so many unique features besides chemistry. Distance from our star, a spinning iron core producing a magnetic shield against radiation, an atmosphere that burns up most of the things that fall down our gravity well, a binary system with a satellite large enough to produce tides and (usually) benevolent weather, and more. It's all unique for our solar system. Beyond that, though, in the farther reaches? When you're counting in billions of systems the odds change.
#1 he was english who lived in Sri Lanka.
He also liked little boys.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-mysterious-sri-lankan-world-of-arthur-c-clarke-1142640.html
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