Author: Xabi Otero
•8:28 PM
Geography is a social science and is based on the space. But when we talk about space, we have to bear in mind that the space is much bigger than we think so. Even if we are limited to a specific country, the places that are worth being visited are too much. Those places are much more when thinking about a continent, so we can imagine how many interesting places there are in all the planet.

But there is even more than these: the Earth is just a small point compared to all the planets in the Milky Way. And compared to the Sun, the Earth is tiny.

If we kept on comparing the sizes of stars, we'd see that the Sun is really small next to the size of other stars as Arturo or Antares. So, even if we cannot see there are wonderful places in these planets and stars, planets similar to the Earth might exist, where there could be at least, some worthy places.

And coming back to Geography, a geographer can study all of those places. While doing it, we are fascinated of those great and different spaces, both natural and created by humans. But at the same time, it's very frustrated, cause the more you learn about them, the more places you want to visit, and it's impossible to carry it out in the whole life.




p.d. In the last image, we can see what I told you yesterday about light polution :P
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1 comentarios:

On January 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM , Cristian M.C. said...

Y más después de los últimos descubrimientos que se han hecho... y es que no se ve que no sólo existe este universo en el que estamos sino que hay varios más allá del nuestro.

La pregunta que siempre me he hecho no es si hay vida más allá de nuestro Sistema porque eso tengo claro que sí, es cuestión de estadística y probabilidad, sino... estamos acostumbrados a que en todo hay un continente y un contenido, si los universos son el contenido, ¿cuál es el continente? ¿puede medirse?.

Me limitaré a ser menos positivista (cuantificador) y viviré más pensando en nuestro interior (naturalista).

;)