OMG THIS COULD BE SWEET
Earth is not alone (maybe).
Ok, space. Fine. I get it. YOU WIN. No more shall I decree Dinosaurs as greater than space. Because now, some fucking scientist has found some fucking planet that could be like another fucking Earth! Meaning there could be WATER or even LIFE! And it's close enough that humankind could conceivably go there within, like, a couple dozen millenia. Or 20 years, if we ever work out that speed-of-light travel thing.
And more importantly, he suggested that planets like this are COMMON!
Kinda bad, but that's ok. It's only a matter of time, now, until we start sending bold captains out on missions where no one has gone before, and then the apocalypse comes, and everyone forgets about Earth except a robot who looks human and the entire population migrates to Earth 2 to start anew, but then it turns out that there's a whole space empire out there fighting, and the humans have to face moral dilemmas like "Are robots people too?" and "If I can blast a womp rat from my T-16 in beggar's canyon, can I also hit a 2-meter-wide thermal exhaust port with a proton torpedo after navigating down a narrow shaft on a giant space station? And is it right to do that?" and "What is the Matrix?"
Oh man. I wish I could live forever. The future is going to suck, but it is also going to be FUCKING AWESOME.
Ok, space. Fine. I get it. YOU WIN. No more shall I decree Dinosaurs as greater than space. Because now, some fucking scientist has found some fucking planet that could be like another fucking Earth! Meaning there could be WATER or even LIFE! And it's close enough that humankind could conceivably go there within, like, a couple dozen millenia. Or 20 years, if we ever work out that speed-of-light travel thing.
And more importantly, he suggested that planets like this are COMMON!
Kinda bad, but that's ok. It's only a matter of time, now, until we start sending bold captains out on missions where no one has gone before, and then the apocalypse comes, and everyone forgets about Earth except a robot who looks human and the entire population migrates to Earth 2 to start anew, but then it turns out that there's a whole space empire out there fighting, and the humans have to face moral dilemmas like "Are robots people too?" and "If I can blast a womp rat from my T-16 in beggar's canyon, can I also hit a 2-meter-wide thermal exhaust port with a proton torpedo after navigating down a narrow shaft on a giant space station? And is it right to do that?" and "What is the Matrix?"
Oh man. I wish I could live forever. The future is going to suck, but it is also going to be FUCKING AWESOME.