Something Quick...

Ok, so just a random rant that I thought would be willing to share. Topic: As a people, we're dumb... Reason (For this particular post): Space exploration....

Now don't get me wrong, I am all for space exploration to a certain point. The universe -or multiverses, if you believe in that type of thing, which is actually a pretty crazy concept, but I digress- is beautiful and full of insane phenomena that we should explore, to a certain extent. My problem? Spending hundreds of millions/billions of dollars to create satellites and fund different programs in order to search for a planet that's habitable.

I was talking to a good friend about something like this, and she said, "What do you think life forms would be like from other planets? Do you think they'll be smarter than us?" My reply, "Yeah, they'll be smarter because they won't exhaust all of their resources destroying their planet and searching for another one that's somewhat close, but still inhabitable for their species."

So my thought for the morning, what if we took all of the money that we spent on satellites searching for "the next Earth" and start working on the real deal first? Because at this point the highest ESI (Earth Similarity Index - something that compares planets to Earth) is like .84... and it's like hundreds of light-years away... And even though it's really cool that we keep finding these types of planets, (nah foreal though, it's cool as shit; there's like 4 or 5 planets that are over .80 which is wild, digress) it's damn sure not going to happen where we find a planet that is 100% in our universe. So let's take that billions of dollars that we're discovering the heavens with and use it to make our world a little more habitable. You know, purify some rivers, save some wildlife, not have people dying of hunger across the world or depending on corporations for every single need, etc.

As a human race, we need to start working on our planet because at the rate we're going, there's not many generations left that'll actually have actual beautiful places on Earth to cherish. They're slowly being destroyed by us, while we look outward instead of focusing internally...

Just my thoughts.

Marcus J