Space the Final Frontier

Michael Gutierrez

Professor Jett

English B1A

2/2/2015

Beyond Exploring

        “Space the final frontier” Quoted by Spock is the last unexplored border for humans. Since the dawn of time man has always been fascinated with space. We’ve created stories from the stars above about gods and mythical beasts. We’ve sent man in space and to the moon. Were trying to go to Mars and build a colony. The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke “The next time you see the full moon high in the south, look carefully at its right-hand edge and let your eye travel upward along the curve of the disk” (Adaptations 104). Now there looking for something about previous civilization. In the editorial The Year 2001: In Search of the Obelisk Patrick Canes writes “Then we got the famous overturn in the form Obelisk, which stood inscrutably on our moon waiting for us to have sufficient consciousness to explore it” (Cranes 1). The question though is humanity ready for otherworldly contact. 

Curiosity has been a constant in the characteristics of humanity and exploring is never ending. We have this need to search for knowledge. In The Sentinel Garrett says “The mystery haunts us all the more now that other planets have been reached and we know that only earth has ever been then home of intelligent life” (Adaptations 110). In the article An Odyssey into the Future Bionzy writes “We have always worshipped beauty, and I think there's a new kind of technological beauty in the world” (Bionzy 2). Technology has expanded our ideas of what’s out there. We’ve seen galaxies and other planets similar to earth. As humans we have had the need to go and see if the planets have life in their respective solar systems.