Star Trek is way too optimistic

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Scientific exploration of outer space has in recent times ramped up. From the early days of just going to the moon to this amazing image taken in February of this year as New Horizon's Kupier Belt unmanned space craft flew by, we are finally seeing the fruits of labor from the astronomical community. The amazing thing about this image is for the first time we are seeing Jupiter in real color. The great Red Spot there however is no longer so great and red, could it be that after 300 years of nonstop storm and activity...much like the Great Dark Spot on Neptune, this monster of a "hurricane" (if we can even call it that) is finally...finally dissipating?

Using a gravitation sling shot effect of passing around the gravitational field of various planets, New Horizons has succeeded in becoming the fastest object we have ever shot into outerspace (much less created on our own planet). It's mission is to explore Pluto and the now discovered Kupier Belt objects, a series of hundreds/thousands?/millions? of planetary objects similar in size to Pluto itself. The mystery of the tenth planet in the solar system is now at a consensus, there is none. In fact we only have 8 planets and including Pluto a ton of smaller dwarf planets encircling our solar system. As we know it now anyway, by 2015, who knows what we'll spot out there?

So what are some of the new findings of the cosmos? Well for starters we are apparently almost entirely sure that the center of the Milky Way is a Super Massive Black Hole and that most every galaxy out there is governed by one.

Also in 3 million or so years the Andromeda Galaxy will be smacking into ours, if humans are still around and lucky this solar system will survive...and at worse case be sucked into the Black Hole of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Dark matter does indeed exist as Einstein predicted (though even he though it was too stupid to imagine).

Quasars are NOT star formations or any of the many theories that came before it, they are in fact Super Massive Black Holes that are "gluttonous". They're absorbing so much material and ejecting so much plasma that they seemed to be something else entirely.

There are now planets and dwarf planets in our solar system. Thanks to the new classification system of what a planet is we are down to 8 planets with Neptune being the furthest out and Pluto and Eris classified as the first 2 trans-Neptunian dwarfs while Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is also a dwarf planet.

So where are the little green men? Well, it's a tough one to answer but it seems we may never know. Light travels at a set speed and most telescopes are receiving light that is millions to billions of years old. Even if there are civilizations out there on alien worlds (and the probabilities suggest that there in fact are despite the rare earth theory) they may not be able to spot us as we are unable to see them. Covering the distance in light years is also daunting and perhaps a cosmic irony that we may never overcome. The idea that blackholes would be worm holes to other places is also out of the equation, a black hole is so incredibly dense it's literally the point of no return. You cannot escape one once you get too close. Of course if there ever is a search for life from our civilization, we'd better hurry...the longer we wait the further off everything else in the universe becomes.