Space Terrain

For an enviromental special, you probably wouldn’t think of having an article about space, because, after all, there is no land in space. But actually, this article is about what it’s like in the cosmos, including black holes.

Firstly, I’ve got to tell you of a rare event that happens usually once a century in the cosmos: a hypernova. You might/might not have heard of a supernova, which is when a huge star collapses in on itself, creating a huge show of dancing lights, usually forming a black hole. Well, a hypernova is basically the same thing, but with two differences: the star is so big  you  probably wouldn’t know it exists, but also, there are no black hole formations. Another amazing thing is that it could happen in your lifetime. To be around one would mean you would be completely dead; wether you knew about it or not.

Even though our technology is very advanced, we still haven’t explored every region of The Milky Way. There could be unknown textures on different worlds, or even a planet made of dark matter. Instead of taking in light, dark matter devours, absorbs and dissolves light, each ray making it bigger than the last. If you were to touch this mysterious substance, you would probably die in less than a second. Maybe in these planets, there could be a new colour? What about a new temperature? New chemical? These are all the things we are missing with this day’s technology.

If you travel through space, you wouldn’t always fly in a straight path. The gravitational pulls of other planets or stars could take you off track, maybe even a million miles away!

Also, in space, it is not like you are in the sky. Wherever you are, there will always be some gravity, explaining why you can be stiff but also flexible.

The temperatures in space are well below freezing, but some planets, such as Venus, can get much hotter than earth. Why? Because of the greenhouse effect, something where a world has thick clouds that stop hot gases escaping, but is almost invisible to human tech.

Extra-terrestrial life forms might be reading the exact same book as you, maybe even the same page, word, or on a rare side of things, letter. Their gizmos could even be more advanced than ours, like having ships that could cross the galaxy in one minute. Maybe, the reason we are not picking up their signals is because they could use different signals to us, and they pass though our planet every second? Or not a second in their mind...

Our fate is a story you and your family and friends will never know. If you head to the Halls of Extinction, there is an unnamed corridor sealing our future story. Who knows what is in there? That is the mystery they are trying to tell...

Did you know that our ancestors could survive all mass extincions? When these meteors landed, huge boulders were flung out into space, some of which contained our single-celled cousins. Is this how life started out on Earth? Who knows? All we know is that we never actually existed then!