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Cosmography
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Newarth?
May
be, it is time for America and Russia to just donate NASA and
Russian Space Agency to humanity fully and say: look we give you
this the best America and Russia could produce thinking of
the words of the first human being on the moon: A small step for a
man but a giant step for mankind! Astronomers
are very excited about this new discovery of theirs which is a new
Earth like planet 20 Light Years Away! One
could ask, how on earth the astronomers discovered this planet
when the star system to which this planet belongs to, takes
thousands of human years to send its lights to reach us! Well,
science has its ways to deliver wonders and this is done using
existing technologies. However,
this very fact that there is a planet like earth out there
somewhere, even if it is 20 light years away, is astounding in
itself! This planet, we are calling it, Newarth, is 1.5 times
bigger than our Earth and yet it is located in its solar star
system in a position that makes it almost as hot as the
Earth. This
only means that there can be water that could support life,
although this must be said that because it is 1.5 times
bigger than the Earth its gravity is 1.5 time more powerful than
earthian gravity and therefore it would not be possible to have
human like or even big animal like beings living or growing
there. Yet
one could speculate that there could still be life growing there
very much near the surface or within its marine waters! The
other interesting fact is that although Newarth is much closer to
its star than the Earth is to the Sun, its star is not as hot as
our Sun. That might mean that there would be lot less radiation,
solar rays emitting out, solar wind, and energy fields and
at the same time it would mean that their intensity ought to be
rather less powerful offering us opportunities, may be, in the
very very very distant distant future to be able to study that
star to understand a star much better than we do now for the fact
that we cannot ever have direct human contact with our angry
burning star the Sun! These
are exciting times for Astronomy! We now ought employ all our
efforts to develop the knowledge base, technological advancement
and the craftsmanship so that we could make better space crafts
and find better and less cumbersome fuelling system to power
the craft because it now takes all the space of craft to have the
fuel on board! We are at the horse carriage stage of space craft
building and we need to develop concord space craft! That's
the challenge faced by NASA, ESA, Russian Space Agency and
International Space Agency and all other relevant bodies including
University Departments to grapple with! May
be it is time we have all these organisations coming together
forming a truly universal organisation led by the expertise of
NASA and Russian Space Agency that these two wonderful
organisations have developed over the last few decades and it is
time for America and Russia to just donate NASA and Russian Space
Agency to humanity fully and say: look we give you this the best
America and Russia could produce thinking of the words of
the first human being on the moon: A small step for a man but a
giant step for mankind! And
Humanasa would still be based in America and Russia but would not
be run by American or Russian Administration. Instead it would be
run by a Universal body of Academic Scientists, Astronomers,
Astronauts, Cosmonauts, Mathematicians, Geologists, Physicists,
Geog-Physicists, Chemists, Dortors, Artists, Designers,
Philosophers, Poets, some children's and young people's input,
donated from all the nations (there is no big or small nation in
this and there is definitely no VETOing!!) out of their best
institutions (universities and Space Agencies). And Humanasa would
become the core of all space exploration and space science on
behalf of humanity and all other national space agencies in all
existing countries that have an agency would become part of
Humanasa and countries that do not have a space agency would have
one! Who
would finance it? It would be financed by all the governments of
the world as well as the bodies from where the academics are
coming from (which should treat these people working at Humanasa
as though they were in sabbatical leave engaged in research and
pay their salaries) and further finance can be had from the
world corporations like the satellite companies, mobile telephone
companies and any other companies that use the knowledge and technology
developed by Humanasa in their business as well as all the
schools, colleges, universities and other research organisations
that useservices from Humanasa would be required to pay a minimal
subscription fee for the usage of the scientific out product
deriving from the works of Humanasa. Dream
like might it sound but we are desperately in need of such a
Universal Body to lead us out of this miserable
village-nation-identities that our failed political system has
boxed us in and take us further into this infinite domain! Well,
welcome to Newarth! PL
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