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Can you imagine if this would happen twice in exploration? ( Details Inside )

Asked by talljasperman (21916points) May 30th, 2013

Columbus was searching for India and found the New World, what if future space explorers found something in deep space that was just as unique? Like a second earth on the other side of the sun? Or a new route though space to a new culture of humans?

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_Whitetigress's avatar

I can imagine it and it’s amazing and with the universe being trillions upon trillions miles wider than our tiny baby Earth it would probably happen billions of times.

:D

rexacoracofalipitorius's avatar

The surface of the planet we live on is curved in such a way that it limits our vision. For this reason, people in those times had to actually go somewhere in order to see what was there.

While it’s possible that our universe might be a negatively-curved 3-dimensional surface of a 4+dimensional hypersolid, what we see through telescopes looks like a 3-dimensional space. We can see really far, and we see lots of stuff. Thus we have a pretty good idea of what we will find out there before we go.

Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that we’ll ever explore most of it. Things outside our Solar System are just too damn far away for us meatbags to reach. Fortunately, the System itself holds wonders seen and unseen, and I suspect we’ll someday find something so cool it makes the discovery of a “new world” akin to finding a penny in your sock.

Inspired_2write's avatar

I can imagine that in futures ahead that we as humans should expect to discover vast new universes that include Parallel universes ,realities, and mulit universes.
It will take time for us to develop at todays technology but it is all possible.
Who knows when technology will jump into the future?

dabbler's avatar

I’ll ignore the probabilities, and run with the ‘what if’ ...

That would be awesome ! ...I think. One way or another it would shake up humanity and expand our thinking of ourselves and others.

At least the “Indians” found in the Western Hemisphere were human so it was not all that hard to relate to them even if they wee treated as subspecies at the time.
We can only hope the ‘others’ we find over ‘there’, on the other side of the wormhole, are not so much different from us that we will just eat them, or they us.
Let’s hope that they aren’t carriers for space-pox or someother deadly thing we haven’t seen on Earth yet.

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