NASA Just Gets Wackier

I found an article today from May 26, 2024 by NASA titled, “NASA detects Earth-size planet just 40 light-years away that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life.” NASA is happy that the newfound earth-like planet is only 40 lightyears away. But dear reader, just one lightyear is an astounding 4,600,000,000,000 miles away!!! Times 40 that would equal 184,000,000,000,000 miles away!!! The planet might as well be a gazillion miles away! That is, it might as well be infinitely distant. Do you have any idea of just how far away that is?

NASA detects Earth-size planet just 40 light-years away that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life 

By Robert Lea published May 26, 2024 

The exoplanet Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. The potentially habitable planet could be a good place to search for alien life, scientists say. SOURCE

Our own earth's sun is 93,000,000 miles away. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. You'd have to travel that fast for 40 years to reach the newfound planet. I just cannot get excited over an alleged planet that is nearly 50,000 times farther away than our own sun is! THAT'S NOT CLOSE!!! I realize that it is close in astronomical terms, but realistically nothing can be consider even remotely “close” that would require 184,000,000,000,000 years of traveling at 186,282 miles per second to get there.

The Guinness World Records shows that the fastest speed ever recorded by a manmade spaceship is 364,660 miles per hour by the Parker Solar Probe at on November 20, 2021. Light travels at 525,114,155 per hour. The Parker Solar Probe travels 3,194,421,600 miles in one year. That means, if it were possible for a manmade craft to travel over 3 billion miles each year, it would take at least 57,600 YEARS to reach the newfound planetoid. Humans civilization is only approximately 6,000 years old. Let me sum up everything I just said with a Bible verse from Psalms 145:3, “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.” Our majestic Creator's greatness is unsearchable!!!

With all the millions of homeless and hurting Americans now trying just to survive, I find it ludicrous that our government gives billions of dollars to fund NASA's space exploration. Americans spend one trillion dollars per year on vacations and entertainment. Something is very wrong with our society. Everything rises and falls on leadership. If our government leaders won't care, then most citizens won't care either.

Although I have the most tremendous respect for NASA's brilliant scientists, I am bewildered that they actually think two rocks collided to form the earth and the moon billions of years ago, and then asteroids containing ice crystals crashed into the earth to form the massive oceans, and then somehow life formed and crawled out on land to become all the animals, birds and humans today. Such nonsense is not even plausible; it is “science falsely so called” (1st Timothy 6:20b). The ONLY plausible answer is God. ...

Genesis 2:4-5, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”

Isaiah 45:12, “I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.”

Jeremiah 10:12, “He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.”