A GLASS OF GLIESE
Some many years ago my friend Gideon asked me a question that went something like this:
If you could take any and all knowledge and things with you (such as books, machines, how to do things, etc.) and also as many persons as you'd like (regardless of whether just a few or millions) and go to another world around another star would you? But before answering there is one caveat John "you could never come home to Earth"?So would you still go?
My answer then was Yes. My answer now is still yes under those conditions.
Not to escape, not to run. That's not it. But a chance to due it right all over again basically. For myself, others, and the future of humanity. Nothing says it wouldn't become better or worse than the world we have now. I'm still interested in the world we have now and Earth that part just mentioned before about "Not to escape, not to run."
I could maybe sum up the "Yes" answer to the question as my willingness to explore and endeavour. To do it right :)
Recently, astronomy has been making strives in the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets which exist outside our star system around other stars). Such a planet is "Gliese 581C" a planet in orbit of a Red Dwarf star in constellation of Libra. That world potentially has similarities to Earth. A world of green pastures and sunny days? No. But as has so far been found a world potentially most similar to Earth in general. A potential water world. The description and explanation here can go on and on :) But-------------
Here is a link from Wikipedia not highly technical but it will get your feet wet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581c
And here is a few artists renderings of what things might look like there on Gliese 581c:
EARTH GLIESE 581c SIZE COMPARISON EARTH GLIESE 581C SIZE COMPARISON
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING OF GLIESE 581C
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING LOOKING AT STAR GLIESE 581 FROM PLANET GLIESE 581C
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING GLIESE 581C FROM ORBIT
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING HOW THE STAR GLIESE 581 MIGHT APPEAR IN THE SKY OVER PLANET GLIESE 581C
If you could take any and all knowledge and things with you (such as books, machines, how to do things, etc.) and also as many persons as you'd like (regardless of whether just a few or millions) and go to another world around another star would you? But before answering there is one caveat John "you could never come home to Earth"?So would you still go?
My answer then was Yes. My answer now is still yes under those conditions.
Not to escape, not to run. That's not it. But a chance to due it right all over again basically. For myself, others, and the future of humanity. Nothing says it wouldn't become better or worse than the world we have now. I'm still interested in the world we have now and Earth that part just mentioned before about "Not to escape, not to run."
I could maybe sum up the "Yes" answer to the question as my willingness to explore and endeavour. To do it right :)
Recently, astronomy has been making strives in the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets which exist outside our star system around other stars). Such a planet is "Gliese 581C" a planet in orbit of a Red Dwarf star in constellation of Libra. That world potentially has similarities to Earth. A world of green pastures and sunny days? No. But as has so far been found a world potentially most similar to Earth in general. A potential water world. The description and explanation here can go on and on :) But-------------
Here is a link from Wikipedia not highly technical but it will get your feet wet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581c
And here is a few artists renderings of what things might look like there on Gliese 581c:
EARTH GLIESE 581c SIZE COMPARISON EARTH GLIESE 581C SIZE COMPARISON
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING OF GLIESE 581C
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING LOOKING AT STAR GLIESE 581 FROM PLANET GLIESE 581C
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING GLIESE 581C FROM ORBIT
GLIESE 581C ARTIST RENDERING HOW THE STAR GLIESE 581 MIGHT APPEAR IN THE SKY OVER PLANET GLIESE 581C