Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I’d like to know what happened there because here on Earth we’re just spinning around not knowing the consequences. There was running water on Mars. Today it’s completely dry. Something bad happened there too. The universe is hilarious! For example, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you that it melts lead. But that’s not as funny as saying, “You can cook a pizza on a windowsill in nine seconds.” And the next time my fans eat pizza, they’ll be thinking of Venus!
I don’t want to leave this planet until I accomplish everything I came here to do.
Tyler Perry
Asteroids have us in their sights. The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, so they’re not here to talk about this problem. We do, and we have the power to do something about it. I don’t want to be the shame of the galaxy, having had the power to deflect an asteroid and then not doing it, and ending up extinct.
Let’s find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not cling to this concept of “planet” which of course just meant “Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you’re made of?”
The Earth could one day soon
Some asteroids have their sights on us. It would be nice to get close to them and find out what they are made of, maybe tag their ears so that they are always transmitting their location to us. In case one of their trajectories is heading straight for us, we will know well in advance what to do about it.
I have a personal philosophy in life: if someone else can do something that I can do, let them do it. And what I want to do is find things that represent a unique contribution to the world, the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
There is a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which the Earth and the Sun are immersed, about the behavior of the Sun.
