Here's a post on The Informed Reader, a blog over on the Wall Street Journal's interweb. Get this: Concerned about Global Warming, the eggheads have cooked up a scheme to cool the planet by "bombarding the Arctic stratosphere with specially engineered particles to deflect the sun’s rays, thereby lowering temperatures."
Gee, sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? Block out the sun's rays and the earth will cool right down! 'Cause it's not like we need sunlight for anything, right?
Oh, wait. We need it to live.
I think we can safely say by now that combating Global Warming has become a psychotic obsession among the scientists. I don't know how, but somewhere along the way they have lost sight of the basic fact that combating Global Warming does us no good if it renders the planet utterly uninhabitable. Unless we stop the scientists (and we probably cannot) , they will have made the earth a lifeless ball of ice within our lifetimes.
We cannot stay here, at least not with the scientists on the loose. We need to find new M-Class planets to colonize.
Here's the good news: WE HAVE FOUND ONE! Huzzah!
Say hello to this artist's rendition of Gliese 581c, our new home! (Click on image to enlarge.)
The star it orbits is smaller, dimmer and colder than our sun, but that doesn't matter because Gliese 581c is 15.5 times closer to its star than earth is to ours so that the sun will appear to be a massive, threatening ball of blood-red fire from the planet's surface.
The surface temperature is estimated between 32 to 102 degrees Fahrenheit (0 to 40 degrees Celsius). Sounds cozy!
There will be some minor adjustments to make. The planet makes an orbit around its sun in only thirteen earth days, which means that you will be two Gliese 581c-years older after spending only a fortnight on your new home world. Also, you will weigh more. Gliese 581c's gravity is twice as strong as earth's.
I don't know about you, but I'm completely sold on this new planet. I'm totally going to live on it just as soon as we figure out a way to get there.
3 comments:
Right now I's imaginin' up all the fish in that red sea.
Outer space is the stink. I will NEVER go there.
Granted, you will be significantly overwieght . . . but you would only need half the pull ups to pass that fitness test in gym class.
Stupid Fitness evalutions! The bane of every fat kid.
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