A yesterday's editorial in the New York Times titled 'News From Our Neighboring Planet', which you can find here, reminds us how fortunate we are to be living in this present information age.
That also prompts me to wonder how our two neighboring planets might have got along, had both been able to continue developing normally as ours did. For that, I'm assuming Mars would have continued having an atmosphere and land masses and an ocean similar to ours, and eventually people, probably much like ourselves, and a developing technology much like our own. Would we have been friendly neighbors? Would we be co-operating to explore the universe together? Would we, for example, use our observatories to develop a wider base of observation of the rest of the universe? Would we have tried to visit the other,
or exchange communications and knowledge? Or would we have wasted all those opportunities in childish confrontations? We'll never know, of course, but it prompts us to wonder how much more we might have accomplished if we had two neighboring planets working together to solve the mysteries of life. But for now, we'd like to know what really happened long ago on that other planet.
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