SO 600 light years away astronomers have found a planet with similar life-enabling possibilities as our own planet. The only problem I have with this information is the time it will have taken to reach us.
The details we are gathering from space will have originated before the previous Queen Elizabeth was on the throne, and if there was intelligent life there I would expect that like our own planet there will also have been unintelligent life. I would dearly love to be around in another 600 years’ time to see if that planet is still there, always supposing of course that ours still is.
ALAN KEBBELL, Southampton
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