What On Earth?
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I recently happen to read a newspaper article about some of NASA’s space explorations. As I was reading, it occurred to me that hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent by NASA and other such elaborately funded research organizations in extensive researches aimed at demystifying the realm beyond our earthly boundaries. Information of such mystical quality is highly appreciated by science enthusiasts, and is often received with unquenchable voracity and insatiable curiosity. But as I was reading on, a queer thought came to my mind, and I couldn’t help wondering what's the point of all this after all? I mean what difference does it make to our earthly existence if a certain something from the outer space streaks across the galaxy and crashes into a certain something in its neighbourhood? Or how does the number of moons around Saturn affect our subsistence on our planet? Or how does the planet or not-a-planet status of Pluto change our lives here on ear...