(December 5, 2011 at 7:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:It is located about 600 light-years away, orbiting a sun-like star.
Hopefully, by the time science figures out to cover that distance we will have gotten rid of all the jesus freaks who would go there and fuck the place up as they did this one.
Or we could do like that one race in hitchhiker's. Put all the undesirables on one ship and then program it to go somewhere else.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell