(N.Morgan) I think everyone at one time or another has wanted to escape into the stars or the galaxy, just floating around, enjoying the remarkable beauty of our universe and the stars. The stars hold a certain mystic quality and appeal, that nothing else can match. In the video below is a wonderful collection of some of the most beautiful scenes in our universe.
I have been musing on this idea that when we eventually make this planet totally uninhabitable through our short-term greed and ignorance there are some people who think we might be able to escape to another planet. Perhaps one of the myriad exoplanets discovered in recent years circle other stars may well represent a distant mirror of our world existing in a Goldilocks state. Unfortunately, a lack of anything even vaguely like a spaceship to take us there or a way to keep us alive for the centuries it would take to get there doesn’t seem to deter the dreamers. In a sense, good on them, we need dreamers. It was always dreamers who struck out to brave new worlds…But, in leaving what are those pioneers leaving behind, besides their pride?