The NASA scientists of the United States have discovered the presence of two planets after analysing the data collected by the 'Kepler probe'.
Here are some of the interesting facets of their analysis:-
(a) The planets are 1,200 light years away from us.
(b) There's a star similar to the sun of our solar system and the scientific community has named it as
"Kepler 62".
(c) Of the five planets around Kepler 62, two have been found to be remarkably similar to the earth
that we inhabit, in that, they've similar factors that facilitate life. And they've been named
Kepler 62E and Kepler 62F!
(d) Four of the five planets are 11/4 to twice the size of the earth while the fifth is just its half!
And there are additional tidbits that would be of interest to many of us, which are:-
(a) Kepler 62E and 62 F are almost as distant from their star Kepler 62 as our earth is from our sun
(Apologies for sounding proprietorial in calling them as 'our' sun and earth and no, I've no
ownership illusions!).
(b) Scientists are also of the opinion that those planets have rocks and water just like what we're
familiar with.
My take.
1. Are there human beings, like us, who inhabit those planets?
2. If affirmative, do they also fritter away their time on trivia?
3. I'd read a long time back that our planet continuously transmits sound signals, in various forms, into outer space in the fond hope of receiving answering signals from similarly inhabited planets like ours. Haven't the Kepler civilisation - as I'd like to call it - received them or are they:-
(i) Not wanting to have any truck with us because of our insensitivity to fellow human beings?
(ii) Using a technology not as developed as our's?
(iii) More recent in their evolution, in that, they're still traversing through 'stone age'? And hence, are
busy working on their own survival?
(iv) Fearing that we'd swarm into their planets and muck up things there too?
(v) And lastly, my most serious doubt. Is it possible that everyone - who has passed into the mist of time
from our earth - has taken his/her next birth out there and is leading a peaceful, contended life?
Tailpiece.
I might be termed crazy for this piece of mine. But I'd like to quote Rudyard Kipling to justify myself and I quote, 'Some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?
Here are some of the interesting facets of their analysis:-
(a) The planets are 1,200 light years away from us.
(b) There's a star similar to the sun of our solar system and the scientific community has named it as
"Kepler 62".
(c) Of the five planets around Kepler 62, two have been found to be remarkably similar to the earth
that we inhabit, in that, they've similar factors that facilitate life. And they've been named
Kepler 62E and Kepler 62F!
(d) Four of the five planets are 11/4 to twice the size of the earth while the fifth is just its half!
And there are additional tidbits that would be of interest to many of us, which are:-
(a) Kepler 62E and 62 F are almost as distant from their star Kepler 62 as our earth is from our sun
(Apologies for sounding proprietorial in calling them as 'our' sun and earth and no, I've no
ownership illusions!).
(b) Scientists are also of the opinion that those planets have rocks and water just like what we're
familiar with.
My take.
1. Are there human beings, like us, who inhabit those planets?
2. If affirmative, do they also fritter away their time on trivia?
3. I'd read a long time back that our planet continuously transmits sound signals, in various forms, into outer space in the fond hope of receiving answering signals from similarly inhabited planets like ours. Haven't the Kepler civilisation - as I'd like to call it - received them or are they:-
(i) Not wanting to have any truck with us because of our insensitivity to fellow human beings?
(ii) Using a technology not as developed as our's?
(iii) More recent in their evolution, in that, they're still traversing through 'stone age'? And hence, are
busy working on their own survival?
(iv) Fearing that we'd swarm into their planets and muck up things there too?
(v) And lastly, my most serious doubt. Is it possible that everyone - who has passed into the mist of time
from our earth - has taken his/her next birth out there and is leading a peaceful, contended life?
Tailpiece.
I might be termed crazy for this piece of mine. But I'd like to quote Rudyard Kipling to justify myself and I quote, 'Some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?
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