The Future

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11218802 "Alien oceans could be detected by telescopes" by Pamela Rutherford
 Our generations has ideas or dreams about what the future may be like. The future can often seem far away, out of reach. Other times the future seems to lie it the palm of our hand. The future seems within grasp now. Scientists say that the next generation of telescopes  could be able to show the existence of oceans on planets twenty to thirty light years from the milky way.
  That idea is almost mind boggling to me. The fact that our technology is so advanced that these studies are even ideas much less that they are becoming reality is incredible. Think back to ancient Rome, what would there philosophers  have thought of the idea of seeing so far out into space? Think back a shorter distance to the beginning of the 20th century the reality that is today was a far off dream to them. We are living in the future. The technology and knowledge that we have today will lead us to unimaginable ideas and creations. Even though we are constantly progressing we should remember that progression takes away what forever took to find. We don't want to ruin our world with the technology we create in order to find another far away one.