Back on Earth 99 years ago on July 23, 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope confirmed the first Earth sized planet in the “habitable zone” in relation to its star. The orbit is not close enough that it’s too hot and it’s not far enough that it’s too cold. It’s in just the right place where liquid water can exist and life can thrive. This made the planet, at the time named Kepler-186f, unique from the other 1000 exoplanets discovered by the Kepler telescope. People of that time thought nothing of this; but it would come to mean so much more. The possibility of colonizing the planet was unknown at the time. There was no way of telling if there was an atmosphere and what it contained. No way of knowing if there was water or life already on the planet. …show more content…
Mankind, finally motivated by the impending doom of their planet, worked together instead of against. The ozone layer of the atmosphere had deteriorated and natural resources were deplenished, Earth could no longer sustain life. After a year of planning and construction the first probe was sent to Kepler-186f in 2036. Originally thought to be impossible, NASA developed the warp engine allowing spacecraft to travel at speeds faster than the speed of light. This advancement allowed the colonization probe to reach the planet in 33 days. It determined the atmosphere was thick and could hold in heat. It consisted of nitrogen carbon, dioxide and oxygen. Water was also on detected on the surface. The galactic jackpot had been hit, everything needed to sustain human life was there, this led mankind to make the necessary advancements to leave Earth and voyage into the stars in the year …show more content…
The planet was successfully reached and colonization began. Smaller ships would bring the population down to the surface. The planet was very Earth like. It was rocky and rivers and oceans spread across the surface. The sun was much dimmer than the sun of Earth. It appeared to be sunset at all times of the day on kepler 186f. Alien Vegetation grew in the soil of the planet. This was the first time extraterrestrial life had been discovered in the milky way galaxy. It was a beautiful planet, as Earth was before humans could destroy it.
The calendar had restarted, years lasted 120 days on kepler, nearly one third of a year on Earth. During the twelfth year living on the new planet factories had been constructed. Governments had been put in place and natural resources were being extracted from the planet.
Year 30, people began splitting up and siding against each other for ultimate control of the planet. Different beliefs led to fighting and fighting led to the creation of weapons. Mankind was going down a familiar path. War broke out, bombs were dropped and people were losing their lives. Instead of using the resources to humankind’s benefit, they were used for its
War is seen as a universal concept that often causes discomfort and conflict in relation to civilians. As they are a worrying universal event that has occurred for many decades now, they posed questions to society about human's nature and civilization. Questions such as is humanity sane or insane? and do humans have an obsession with destruction vs creation. These questions are posed from the two anti-war texts; Dr Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick and Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut.
Mankind is incredibly destructive, but at the same time very innovative. During the time period of World War 2 (WW2), 6 million innocent Jews were murdered in the country of Germany. However at the same time, Germany had also rebuilt its fallen empire. We can see that these facts show a paradox. A paradox is a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities. WW2 can be seen as a paradox, but more specifically we can see the paradox of humanity. Examples of this human paradox can be seen through the events surrounding WW2 and the literature written about it.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” (Albert Einstein). This quote summarizes the actions of the US and European nations at that time and how all their goals about self empowerment raises an ideology that is toxic to them and all of society. Society is more focused on self empowerment rather than self preservation, as can be seen in the novel Three Day Road. Joseph Boyden expands upon the idea of how mankind is the root of evil that is sewed onto this perfectly tranquil and harmonious world. Humans, through various actions and ideologies are corrupting the world and decreasing
Throughout the 20th Century, the world was engulfed in global conflicts, engaging in one war after the next. When looking at these different conflicts, interconnected themes and issues seemed to lead to the later conflicts. The first of the conflicts to affect the globe was the Great War. Since the Great War, numerous conflicts have followed including World War II, The Cold War, and eventually the War on Terror. These wars share similar goals and themes of gaining power and prestige, seeking revenge, and fighting ideologies. Each of these conflicts results in events that eventually lead to the next conflict, creating near constant warfare around the globe. The effects and fears created by these conflicts can still be seen today as we fight
with a vivid imagery of a world that was already falling apart, prior to humanity’s infliction upon
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel titled “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, the concept of man’s inhumanity to man describes the ways that war has a ripple effect, such that any inhumanity carried out has consequences for many more people than are involved in that act. One can clearly see that war leads to destruction during different regimes in Afghanistan. The destructive effects of war can be seen in the death of so many people. It leads to the suffering of the younger generation and it demolishes the infrastructure of the country.
Although Pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant planet delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. Today Pluto remains the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft, yet an increasing amount of information is unfolding about this peculiar planet. The uniqueness of Pluto's orbit, rotational relationship with its satellite, spin axis, and light variations all give the planet a certain appeal.
It is without a doubt that the most fascinating thing about space is the possibility of life elsewhere beside Earth. It is estimated that the Milky Way Galaxy itself contains about 300 billion stars. Each star contains planets and some planets might even have moons. With these findings, the question is no longer whether life exists elsewhere. The probability that Earth is the only place where life exists in the universe is far too slim. NASA has identified many planets that have similar conditions to Earth but most of these planets are hundreds of light years away so traveling there to find out if there’s any living organism is not easy. Luckily, scientific evidences have pointed out that one of the moons of Jupiter, Europa, could be one of the places where life can exist. If the theories proposed by astronomers about Europa are true, life on Europa might not even be entirely different than life near the bottom of Earth’s oceans.
KIC 8462852 was first sighted using Kepler in 2011 by Tabetha Boyajian and a team of citizen scientists working on the Planet Hunters project. Then they spotted something odd. At first they didn’t know what to do, the data looked unbelievable, so they took the data to the scientists. The data was good. The star had seen dips in light by up to twenty-two percent. The largest planet in our solar system causes a drop in light of one percent. What ever
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The Hubble Telescope is the world’s first space-based optical telescope. The Hubble telescope received its name from American astronomer Dr. Edwin P. Hubble. Dr. Hubble confirmed an ever expanding universe which provided the basic foundation of the Big Bang theory. The first concept of the Hubble telescope came from Lyman Spitzer in 1946 who at that time was a professor and researcher at Yale University, Professor Spitzer believed that Earth’s atmosphere blurs and distorts light and a space orbited telescope would be able to surpass this problem. He spent nearly all of his life dedicated to making this concept into a reality. (http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/)
Carl Sagan once said “every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring—not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is executing Sagan’s words every day. President Dwight D. Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 with the purpose of peaceful rather than military space exploration and research to contribute to society. Just 11 years after the creation, NASA put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, the first humans to accomplish this feat.
War is controversial, unfortunate, and certainly misunderstood; it is a transforming agent, a catalyst for change. Nonetheless, many people focus on war's negative consequences, while positive effects are downplayed. War is a necessary evil in the sense that it stabilizes population, encourages technological advances, and has a very high economic value. Without war, the overpopulation of the human race is inevitable. It is this reason that war is a useful tool by not only Mother Nature, but also humans themselves to institute population control.
Venus, the second planet closest to the Sun and Earth’s closest neighbor, is known for its many wonders and harsh conditions. Venus is possibly the first planet discovered by humans and is said to have been first discovered in 17 B.C. by Babylonian astronomers. Venus is the first planet to be explored by spacecraft although many of these attempts have proven unsuccessful. Fortunately, more than twenty of the spacecraft explorations been proven successful, and through those we have gained knowledge about this wonder of the night sky.
...s take more than twelve hours to reach Earth” (Folger 3). Voyager 2 is the further of both of the spacecrafts and will be the first craft to ever enter interstellar space (3). Since their launch, both of these space robots have been sending back data 37 years later (2). All of these robots prove more than a human ever could about the progress we can make when given the right guidance and technology.