Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

When it comes to searching for life with the best telescopes that we can build in tandem with the latest technology, NASA says we are limited to “planets up to 100 light years away. . . .” That means our radio messages would take 100 years to get there and another 100, minimum, for a reply to be received. That seems a great distance: nearly 587 trillion miles from Earth. In fact, it is hardly a stone’s throw away in cosmic perspective. Even if we could analyze every star and planet within that distance surrounding us, it would represent such an infinitesimal sample of the cosmos as to be virtually meaningless.