Timelessness and Space Travel
We obsess over space exploration and travel, and spend huge amounts of money on it, but is it really going to work well with time, and will we ever find any other life out there?
As a species, we build huge telescopes for the sole purpose of looking up at the stars and space. Through these, we try to find new planets, which have life on them, or which could be habitable. But is it worth it? When we look at planet far away, up to 10 billion light years away (the Hubble Space telescope), for example, 9000 light years away, we see light from 9000 years ago, because it has taken it that long to reach Earth. When we discover planets that we believe to not be able to sustain life, we right them off as uninhabitable. However, in that time, and the time it would take us to reach there, the climate may have changed, as Earth's did, to be able to support human life, but we will never know, because we believe it be uninhabitable, so leave it alone. The same is true with discovering alien life. When we search for other life in the universe, we may see light from before life has developed, so believe that there is no life on a particular planet. The same goes for them looking at us; when they look at Earth from millions of light years away, they are seeing an earth where life has not developed yet, so they belive it to not contain any. This both stops us from venturing to where they are, and them coming to us.
If this is true, then is it ever possible to find aliens, or for them to find us? And is it worth building huge new telescopes, using up huge sums of money which could be used for humanitarian causes, or others, when we are seeing an image from the past, so we could not know if a planet could sustain human life, because it may not have developed into that stage in our vision, but in reality, it has? And is it worthless seeing this, because space travel is all about finding new places to inhabit, or is it still worth building these telescopes to satisfy human curiosity and gain more knowlegde?
What do you think?
Comments (8)
31 Oct 2019
This is the best dialog
31 Oct 2019
Do you think that aliens can come to our planet and find us or will they survive on our planet without their oxygen? Do you think that people should make telescope with a lot of money to observe on space to find out more about our solar system?
I think that in the 4000 planets that we KNOW OF... AND the millions of planets that we don't... There may most likely be forms of life, if not as advanced as ours, but microorganisms, or even evidence that life was once on a planet, far out into space. There may even be very advanced forms of life, with perfect conditions for people (or creatures like people) to survive. However, if life on other planets isn't so advanced, it would be more likely for US to discover them, rather than the other way round. AND WE ARE ONLY FOCUSING ON PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM!
To be honest, we are actually focusing on space exploration not the planets.
But your comment is really appreciative! Because your saying your opinion!
I agree with you lucky_thought if you wanted to find an alien how are you going to find the alien even if you searched everywhere where is the key place you might think the unique life form is going to be hiding most and if you catch an alien what would you do with it.
06 Nov 2019
I agree with you lucky_thought if you wanted to find an alien how are you going to find the alien even if you searched everywhere where is the key place you might think the unique life form is going to be hiding most and if you catch an alien what would you do with it.
08 Nov 2019
I agree with you at the end there. We need to build larger telescopes then we could find life on planets quicker the checking each won on a rocket costing more than £1,000,000 every trip!!!
Where did you get this number from, radical_koala? Could you find out more about the telescopes that might find out new things in the universe?
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