CANADA: NASA has discovered the answer to all of our problems. It is another planet, a possible twin to Earth that could theoretically sustain life.
This revelation could be bigger than Columbus “discovering” America, or Lewis and Clark finding the Northwest Passage.
It offers the possibility of starting over. Hasn’t the thought crossed the mind of every adult of a certain age that if we could time travel back to our youth and know what we know now, we would not have made the mistakes we made?
The first step in boldly going where no one has gone before is to rename the planet. Kepler-452b won’t do. How about Krypton? That name is already widely known as the fictional planet from which Superman came, thus giving it cultural standing. Steven Spielberg could make a film about our new second home. ET might even be there to welcome us.
Then we have to figure out a way to get there. Kepler-452b is 8,400 trillion miles away. Using present technology it would take 25.8 million years to get there. To reach the planet, people would have to reproduce in space, creating multiple generations of descendants. How would the new arrivals find materials to build anything? We’d be starting over like cavemen, though that should not deter us. Early pioneers didn’t give up when they encountered obstacles.
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