"You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighborly intervals-the outer giants actually cast shadows over each other in many illustrations-but this is a necessary deceit to get them all on the same piece of paper."
What other things are we ignorant about? Has technology really helped us? Are the biggest discoveries stumble upon by accident? What does make a planet a planet?
This reading was interesting because it talks about the mistakes that people make. Usually stories praises all the scientist or who ever studies planets. What I liked about this reading is when they talk about how Pluto has a large moon and how no one ever had noticed. How could they have noticed before? I know this was in 1978 but im assuming that we had enough technology to notice the biggest moon in the solar system.
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ReplyDeleteIgnorance is too much of a negative connotation to describe our intelligences of the universe. I do somewhat agree with the state that we stumble upon these discoveries by accident. I also think it’s our curiosity that drives humanity forward into the future. It what sparks our interest. We want to satisfy our curiosity by discovering whatever space has in-store for us. There are so many mysteries about space that are beyond our comprehension.
ReplyDeleteDiscovering Pluto was a major accomplishment for humanity. We had the technologies, at the time, that were capable of finding planets in our solar system. I'm sure that the technologies we have now will advance and we'll be able to discover and understand new and obscure planets just like Pluto.