Learning Life: Prerequisite to Space Life
The surface area of our Earth is far from increasing, and the rate at which we populate it is far from decreasing. Larger countries, such as China have even applied certain taxes and laws to prevent families from becoming too large by their own standards. For example, the taxes a family pays would dramatically increase with each new child that the parents conceive. With tactics such as these being applied, the ultimate question becomes a matter of where we go once Earth can no longer support an overabundance of resource feeding life forms such as humans, animals, plants, bacteria, etc. Natural inclination, so far, has been to look to the sky for refuge on another planet and it has been discovered that another life form’s way of life may lead to the technology necessary for humans to live under completely abnormal conditions. Although we are far from obtaining the necessary technology to make such a move, and we really can not be certain which planet we would even populate, our technology has been and continues to rapidly advance in a direction that would solve these problems. To put the rate of our advancements into perspective, we look at Walt Whitman’s poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” In this poem, the speak
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Approximate Word count = 1303
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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