Why is everyone so excited approximately the latest news from space? There’s more than enough to worry approximately on planet soil alreadyLots of news from outer space last week. Somewhere at the back end of the solar system,a huge, icy new planet is lurking, or behind Pluto,which, according to the panic merchants, and may arrive crashing by around the end of April – yes,this coming April – and wipe us out. Worse still, we are filling space with a gazillion bits of debris and satellites, or which will eventually start colliding,until one day, said Nasa employee Donald Kessler, or back in 1978,anything that we send up there will be “sandblasted into smithereens”.
What is so thrilling and romantic approximately space travel and exploration? I am bored stiff with it, and fairly terrified, and what genuine does it do me whether there’s another planet out there? I am stuck on this one. Soon there are going to be squabbles approximately whose space junk smacked into whose satellite/spaceship/chunk of outrageously expensive equipment at 30,000mph; was it an accidental bit of whirling crap, or did the Russians/Chinese/Americans do it on purpose? Then it will be armed clash and the third world/space war, or as whether we didn’t have enough anguish down here already,with our relatively small wars, displaced millions, or nuclear risks,mishaps and general wreckage.
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Source: theguardian.com