Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Centaurs and Tattooine

A centaur is but one of the skeletons you will see at the "Mythological Wildlife" exhibit at Tucson's International Wildlife Museum. The latest exhibit was designed by sculptor and zoologist Bill Willers from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. The goal is mostly to get people to open their minds, and explore the possibilities of what was, or might have been. And then there's just the fun of it. Scheduled to be showing til 2014, you may want to take the opportunity to see this, and the regular exhibits of actual animals, if you have the chance.

Scientists now estimate that the Tattooine planets, are but two of a possible one hundred billion planets in existence throughout the universe. Up to seven hundred planets have already been confirmed by astronomers, who now figure that on average every star could have at least one planet. Their main goal is to find habitable ones in the "Goldilocks zone", unfortunately with not much luck so far. They do however keep discovering new planets, doing new things, and continue to help us expand our imaginations.

The importance of human imagination can never be underestimated. It is what makes us intelligent beings. Without the ability to creatively think, we wouldn't truly be sentient.  No matter what remember to just think about the possibilities of how to better the world.

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