Space The Final Frontier

Space, the final frontier, a whole and vast expanse of galaxies that lead to an unquantifiable amount of stars, planets and further galaxies.

We look at the planets that we are aware of, we see the planets we can visit and explore, and they are..........the moon!!!!

And even that is a struggle, we can send an unmanned craft to Mars and through our "advanced technology" can use rover vehicles to explore. some, of the planet. If the vehicle falls down a ditch, goes out of range or breaks down, it is game over!! And to go to Mars takes in excess of 6 months to get there, that means the rocket has to be pretty big with a lot of fuel, oxygen and food. As for the disposal of rubbish and toilet waste I am not sure I want to go there!!

But let's us think of a greater expanse than just the little area that we call "our universe." We know from looking far into space that there are an infinite number of universes, and as such an even greater number of solar systems like ours. Systems based upon the basic structure of having a larger "sun like" star that other planets rotate around. The system may have one or many suns, it may have a few or many planets. All we know at the moment is they are there.

This then in turn raises the question of "Quantum Leaping".  Right now this is a theoretical type of travel based upon a vibration theory and an infinite number of universes and Doplegang versions of us. In theory there are millions of galaxies, all overlayed and all with a very close version of ourselves, but not quite the same. The leaping bit means we can travel all of these galaxies at will and when we want. Any of these parallel universes are available to be visited.

There is a problem here though, the galaxies are more of a virtual entity than a real thing. Like the world in Avatar, they exist, however, their accessability is through the mind and not the body.

And so the question is brought up about all these universes and galaxies. If there are so many, a number that is so huge we cannot begin to compute it, there must be more life than merely the species on this one tiny planet. It cannot be possible that out of all of these opportunities, in this limitless expanse and wealth of variety, that only life has developed here on Earth.

What has to be acepted is that life is very unlikely to exist in a form that is currently recognizeable to us as humans. It is unlikely that life supported in this solar system is the same as that supported in another. There may well be others that have life forms similar, but there will be many where life forms differ hughely.

From this variety of life there must also be a huge variety in development levels accepted; as such we must accept planetary lifeform as being above, below or at our level. We have to grasp the greater technology with both hands. It must become our role to learn from above, develop the technology to our understanding and then mentor lesser lifeforms,

So there is a vast, untapped area, a huge unknown. We cannot take our current technologies and just go off exploring, we can only use the limited amount of resource we have to probe outer reaches that we can reach. All we are doing is scratching the tiniest surface of the unknown, all we can hope is that another, more advanced, lifeform, sees our attempts, does not rub their hands in glee as they see a soft target to destroy, but come to our aid in the never ending struggle to explore, learn and expand our knowledge.