Bag's Rants

What great achievements we can make. In some areas.

Retrieving some space dust from a distant comet and returning it to earth. Is that not a great achievement? Read more about the Stardust mission here. What an advanced species we are to have engineered machinery and sent it on this multi billion mile voyage for a rendevous with a fast moving comet, collect some samples and return to earth. All over a period of seven years and without any maintenance once it was launched.

Then consider two things.

We are still blowing holes in each other all over the world for various reasons. Which kind of put a question on how advanced we are.

We still take risks with things we don't know about. Here we are bringing back material from the birth of our solar system. Material that could contain chemical building blocks that are a threat to our existence. Yet another question on our intelligence.

We really are like children. Playing with things we don't fully understand and taking chances in our eagerness to learn. All without a care in the world.

posted by Bag @ 4:03 pm