AY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Drake Equation, Interstellar Travel
15 Jul 2016
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Throughout our view of astronomy, we have taken the big picture view of trying to understand how we. Here, at last, we have returned to earth and we have examined the role of our own generation in the big picture of human history. Tens of thousands of past human generations have walked this earth. Ours is the rst generation with the technology to study the far reaches of our universe, to search for life elsewhere, and to travel beyond our home planet. It is up to us to decide whether we will use this technology to advance our species or to destroy it. Imagine for a moment the grand view, a gaze across the centuries and millennia from this moment forward. Picture our descendants living among the stars, having created or joined a great galactic civilization. They will have the privilege of experiencing ideas, worlds, and discoveries far beyond our wildest imagination.
