[SunkenCiv]

National Science Foundation artist, Lynette Cook's drawing shows the inner four planets orbiting Gliese 581, a red dwarf star just 20 light-years from Earth. The newly discovered planet, in the foreground, has a 37-day orbit and, like Earth, is distant enough from the star for liquid water to exist.

Zina Deretsky/National Science Foundation

[DManA]

We have discovered nothing. This is all pure speculation.

[dr_lew]

Thus we see how in the ancient land of Shinar a theoretically highly developed astronomy came into being in the course of a thousand years. It is true that our knowledge of this astronomy is as fragmentary as the few damaged sherds from which it was derived; the meaning of many numbers we can only guess and of their origin we know practically nothing.

Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy

You see the irony?

[Ciexyz]

Hoping that our grandchildren will see the Star Trek dream come true.