I love asking questions. "If Pluto is so far from the sun, why is this image so bright?" (Because you "fooled around" with it, huh?)
NASA estimates 1 billion "Earths" in our galaxy alone. So that means with a total population right now of 7,331,422,049 we could send 7.3 of us to each one, if they weren't so impossibly far away, and possibly already populated by other beings who may not be as anxious to meet 'ET' as we seem to be.
NASA finds Earth's cousin. But what they really mean is that it was there 1,400 years ago, when its light began the journey to earth. It might be gone now, or a barren wasteland because its scientists were more advanced than ours. We don't know. And it would take 2,800 years to send them a message and get an answer back, assuming we could. Better not include this one in "Properties For Sale".
My last question (for now): Is it budget time at NASA? Space is just marvelous but the sad truth is everything else "out there" is either totally uninhabitable or just too far away. And I've got a sneaking suspicion God planned it that way. The only "strange foreign planet" we will ever live on is the one we're standing or sitting on right now! So get used to it, Kids. You can't trash this one and expect to jump onto another to do it again. It just doesn't work that way. Read the rules and check the mileage charts - you'll see.
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