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With the technology of the Hubble telescope, we see that we inhabit merely one tiny planet in a galaxy, while there are two trillion galaxies sprinkled in space. Humans are not the center.
Goenawan Mohamad
February 15, 2021
FROM when Johannes Kepler wrote Somnium in 1634 about a dream journey to the moon—to Elon Musk establishing his SpaceX business in 2002, with plans to prepare technology to live in outer space—man seems driven by curiosity and a desire to test capability.
But times change. We need ‘them’, aliens, because science and technology are continuously pulling back veils. From films like Close Encounter, we build imagin
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