It’s called DICER, or a Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver. What is it? A big telescope some scientist want to float into outer space to look for other Earth’s, or, in modern day geek speak, Earth 2.0.
“We are excited to find another Earth – maybe more,” said top science-ologist, Frankie “The Moose” Kolonoscopy. “Could you imagine if we could all fly there and start over again and stat with human beings instead of dinosaurs for millions or years?”
Skeptics say: “Yes, we can imagine that, and it scares the living shit out of us! Another Earth for us humans to fuck up? Remember, we’ve only had written records since roughly the beginning of the Egyptians – roughly 3000 BC. So 5000 years of us and look what we’ve done. We keep saying – wow, since the 19th Century we’ve gone from horse and buggies to space and nuclear bombs. And we say: yeah, that’s nothing to brag about. What was wrong with those horses and buggies? So we couldn’t fly around the world and see people on the other side of the globe – good! That means all wars have to remain local and no one gets to drop napalm or atomic bombs on people who look and/or think differently. We don’t deserve another Earth after what we’ve done to this one, and are still doing. Just because the human race gets older, doesn’t mean it gets better. Let me tell you about my old, crotchety, racist, misogynist, homophobic grandfather, shall I?”
That’s alright, keep it to yourself, we all got one of those in the family.
So no to Earth 2.0? You decide. Or if NASA takes its sweet time, blowing up more rockets and killing more school teachers, then your grandkids might have to seriously think of this. For now, it’s still science fiction.
