- Code: Select all
User:
Name:
Gender:
Whats your favorite part about space:
Ends on the 18th!
Based on | Click to view |
Artist | jennfreckles [gallery] |
Time spent | 21 minutes |
Drawing sessions | 1 |
6 people like this | Log in to vote for this drawing |
User:
Name:
Gender:
Whats your favorite part about space:
ymbryne wrote:User: ymbryne
Name: Ngip
Gender: Male
Whats your favorite part about space: The possibilities, the fact that anything could be out there, the amusing quirks of the universe. We've found water, we've found ice, we've found giant balls of gas, plants that spin sideways, a giant heart on a planet within our own solar system, a planet where it rains glass sideways (it's called Exoplanet HD 189733b), a triple star system with three suns (HD 188753), and even a planet that spins in the opposite direction of its star (WASP-17b). We've found the most basic compounds that are needed for life. We've found things that according to our science, should not exist. We've found galaxies and planets and moons. We've found everything shy of alien life, and it's all OUT THERE, and who's to say we won't find aliens, too? There's so, so much that we've already discovered and so, so much that we've yet to learn and it's just...
...overwhelming. It's overwhelming how much we can learn and we can see and we can discover, just by looking out there. It's incredible. So much exists out there that we, here on earth right now, will not live long enough to learn about. And it's almost sad. Because we're the age of curiosity but we're also limited by our own capabilities, and all we really want to do is explore the cosmos but we're not that advanced. We have the interest, we have the need, we have the basic resources but we aren't ready yet and that's the sad part, because if we had the means to get out there, we'd be exploring the heck out of space, learning everything we could, visiting new planets, testing the soil in new places and the atmospheres and yet...
...yet, though that's all we'd love to do, we're just not ready. But, we're only going to stay not ready for so long. And though I won't get the joy of seeing the cosmos, the people in ten generations might. They might be born out there, might never see earth except in photos.
And that, to me, is the most exciting thing I can imagine.
Users browsing this forum: alphanea, dragongoddest, nio and 26 guests