Not being too busy these days, I was trying to fascinate myself with space science. Scientists are discovering new planets and "solar systems" in different galaxies hundreds of light years away. Let it be the "earth-like" planet or the "gassy-hot" planet, they are trillions of miles away. I am a bit confused here .... a light year equals a distance that light travels in one earth-year (365 earth days approximately). If those heavenly bodies are hundreds of light years away, then the image scientists are viewing today was formed by light travelling to earth from those masses hundreds of years ago. Doesn't it mean we are seeing something that was there hundreds of years ago? Isn't it possible that those things may not exist at present time? And it also sounds interesting that the Sun we see every day .... we see it where it was 8 mins 20 secs before. More interestingly, if something is living out there and you see an alien moving .... that alien would be dead hundreds of years ago .... but you are still see it .... wow. What if life is possible on that "earth-like" planet. Who will reach there .... if a couple travel on a space craft flying at speed of light .... only their grand-grand-grand children will reach the planet (given that they give birth to at least two opposite sex childrens and same-family marriage is allowed in outer space :) ). I don't see any outcome of these studies .... investing trillions of dollars .... research and grants .... papers being published every now and then ....... Let that money go to Africa and Asia to feed the poor. Ya ya, you may say such studies are necessary ... we should know the mystry of our universe ..... but I am only saying lets limit the study to closer outer-space where you can reach .... in your life time. hunata maha kabi le bhaneka thiye .... "uddeshya k linu ... udi chchunu chandra eka" .... tara destination teti tada pani nahos ki bichmai jivan samapta hos .......... prithvi mai bhayepo euta le nasake arkole garthyo .... Ki kaso sathi ho