For this weeks quote, I wish I could take the entire reading as a quote. I love the solar system and all that it provides so much, it truly satisfies my taste for mystery in the world we live in. However I can only choose one quote so the one I choose is: “From the tiniest throbs and wobbles of distant stars they can infer the size and character and even potential habitability of planets much too remote to be seen—planets so distant that it would take us half a million years in a spaceship to get there”
The reason I choose this quote is because it really reminds me a lot of how large our solar system is and all of the hidden mysteries behind it. It is something that strikes a certain nerve in my brain that brings up large amount of questions, comments, and general feedback.
To start, the solar system freaks me out. It is so vast and although there are no other forms of life that we know of, there are millions of other minerals, gases, and just general pieces of life that we know about. I really want to become something like an astronomer, I mean not really because I am very impatient and would hate to wait so long just to find a piece of stardust. But imagine finding life on another planet—that would be crazy! And just because some scientist says there are no other life forms out there do I have to believe it?
I don’t think I do, and this is where so many questions come up about the solar system. Who else is out there looking at us? Asking if we are the only life form out there that doesn’t have communications with the rest of space yet? What planets are out there that will help us in the future of the earth? There are so many questions to ask about space and there are so many that have been asked. All I know is that space is something that will forever interest me.
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