Kepler progress.

Welcome back to Math’s news of the day. First, last night, Man Utd comfortably wins 3-0 against West Ham Utd, Dimitra Berbatov scores a very terrific goal, I just want to share my happiness. Then, from what I wrote in my latest news blog, today my news is not about sport, accident, nor health. Because the New York Times is much harder than the BBC News, I have to start with the easiest remaining topic, science. Thus, I will write about “Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet”.

According to the New York Time, Kenneth Chang reports about the Kepler mission (2010), which search for planets that can be a new home for humans. This first announcement is inform that the scientist in this mission found something that may be a planet which has 1.5 times bigger than the world in the system that similar to the solar system 2000 light-years away from earth. This report also tells us about there are more than 500 sun-like stars found since the scientist found the first 15 years ago; and, some of the 700 candidate planets which orbit around a sun-like star which is vary in their properties. Finally, this is just a seven months data report of the Kepler mission that is scheduled to operate 3.5 years

I always like this kind of news. The first sci-fi book I read is Asimov’s the End of Eternity, translated in Thai. It suggests that this world is the gravity jail, and humans have to find the way to blast out of this jail before the proper planet is colonized by another alien species. I think the dream that humans can go out of this world, have new colonies on other planets, and conquer this universe is the common dream for every era humans. Therefore, we spend very much of our resource and manpower for this goal despite that give a few outcome back. I can’t say I ‘m not support the space mission, but I think we must concentrate on develop our earth before thinking of leaving to another planets that is far from reality now.

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References

Chang, K. (2010, August 26). Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet. The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2010 from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/science/space/27planet.html?hpw.

The End of Eternity. (2010, August 15). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:40, August 29, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_End_of_Eternity&oldid=378979331.