Monday, May 16, 2016

Rejoicing Over New Planets

THIS TIME, THEY'VE HIT THE MOTHER LOAD, or the first of many, we hope. Twelve hundred new planets discovered, all at the same time, a world record. The total now stands at several thousand, the first having been discovered in the mid nineties, and who knows where it will go from here? It is now estimated, using what we already know, that most likely every star in the heavens has planets orbiting it, and that there are billions of planets orbiting the other billions of stars, and that there must in all likelihood be millions of worlds the right size and right temperature to support advanced life. We are now beginning to believe that life on planets outside the solar system is a virtual certainty, maybe even an enormous, inconceivable abundance of various forms of life, which the more imaginative among us have already believed for millennia. The important point is proof. The planets have been proven, but the life has not been, and don't let the alternative cosmic paradigm people mislead you; the day they can show us all an Andromedon is the day we accept the existence of their alternative cosmic paradigm. But its time to get excited, very excited, excited about something other than, say, which restroom to use, and whether Donald Trump is going to say or do anything crazy today. This mass planetary discovery is enough, important enough, to bring all of humankind together in a glorious pursuit of space exploration progress. Give us something better to do, keep us off the streets, as it were. If only our mainstream, sensationalistic news media would give us more coverage of the excitement of scientific discovery, and just a bit less gratuitous, seductive, shallow sex and violence, we could all have something tangible over which to rejoice. Something to really get us excited, inspired, and to uplift our thinking to a higher level.

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