Sunday, October 03, 2010

if you have a reservation, you're in the wrong place



if you've been living under a pile of dry cow dung or relying on your telltale neighbor's spithole for recent events, then you havent probably heard/read the latest great piece of news from the magical world of science. word is out from the astronomical grapevine about a newly discovered planet some 20 lightyears away from earth that just might be the next globe humans would inhabit if for some reason we'd need to skedaddle from third rock.

it's called gliese 581g and, being in the goldilocks zone (not too hot, not too cold) it is, for now, the best contender for our intergalactic squatting. and by having near-perfect conditions for life to exist, there's a supersize chance that there'd be living beings there, the looks of which, i bet, no sci fi novelist could dream up by a longshot.

what repercussions this discovery would have on religion, i'd rather not go there in avoidance of rant mode. but i really am psyched like a punk on acid about this because it has always been my big wish to be alive  on the advent of any alien race confirmation.

and who knows, at the rate technology's is evolving, it wouldnt be a moon-punch to expect that one day iaine would aking my permission to go on a vacation with her bffs on gliese 581g -- or whatever it would be named then (planet jaithemagnificent would be nice).


p.s. speaking of the r-word, ive finished the art of war and moving on to richard dawkins' the god delusion.
p.p.s. nam.