The world is white.

Some weeks ago I opened my browser (I’m trying rekonq) and I saw an image from APOD.

A strange signal received by the radiotelescope SETI

I read the description without paying much attention and, for a moment, I actually thought that we had caught some alien signal. A few words crossed my mind : “Everything is about to change”.

Now I’m thinking, did people ever realized that the sky above is an infinite space of possibilities? Different worlds, different suns, beautiful horizons that we will never able to see are up there, too far from us to reach, but they are there. Maybe even different civilizations, cultures, creatures. Things that our earthly imagination cannot even conceive.
I don’t think that the fact that we will may never be able to reach them makes this less fascinating.

From what I see, people still live on a flat Earth, with a painted sky above them. Stars are nothing but tiny sparks in the sky, and they are barely visible due to light pollution.

I really hope that someday we will be able to read some signal coming from an alien intelligent life form. I know that any answer from us would take hundreds of thousands of years and a dialogue would be impossible, but that would really change the way we look at the sky above us and the Earth below us.

“Live long and prosper”