Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Kyplanet" channel.

  1. I like honesty. I was an Apollo kid and we bought the whole program lock, stock, and barrel. Star Trek wasn't just sci-fi for us, it was the future. NASA had a great PR team and they had us convinced we'd be on Mars by 1980. We even went on a field trip to the science museum and saw a really neat documentary about tera-forming the place narrated by Leonard Nimoy. I mean, it was Spock, the smartest guy in the world. But then disillusionment kicked in, as reflected by the band that took the name: "We Were Promised Jetpacks." No bucks, no Buck Rogers. I say all that because I was on of those people who was absolutely convinced life was teaming all around us and it was just a matter of time, a short time now that we were boldly going where no man had gone before, that we would be having coffee with E.T., or at least exchanging phone calls. Then I grew up and learned just how unique our little rock really is. Along with the stuff mentioned here you've got our magnetic field, a Moon at just the right distance, plate tectonics, and a big brother Jupiter to keep the cosmic riff-raff out of the neighborhood. There's other stuff too but when you factor it all in, you realize just how rare planets like ours are. Besides, we're so far from any planet like ours we'll never hear from our cosmic cousins. I believe it's set up that way by design but that's me. Sorry, finding some amoeba swimming around in some primordial ooze on some Jovian moon isn't going to move the needle for me. But it will prove life exists outside our planet! Okay, life exists. I can look out my window and see that. A lot of hype is put out there about these habitable zone discoveries. It keeps the funding flowing I suppose. I read an article where JW spotted a new system forming around what looks to be an infant that will develop into a G-class star. Now that's cool. If I could hang around for 3-billion years or so I might be impressed. Until then, call me Irish and color me skeptical, very skeptical.
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