Analysis Of Charles Krauthammer's Article Pluto And Us

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In his article Pluto and Us (2015), Charles Krauthammer claims most people on this world believe we are so advanced in the knowledge of science, yet we still have to further our knowledge of space because there are a plethora of knowledge to be learned still, and on occasion to the little knowledge we possess currently of the outer world, we still manage to soar. Krauthammer supports his claims about our little knowledge of the outer world by stating logical information by pointing out that we still practically know nothing about the outer world because we still have not been able to find a habitable place to live outside of Earth, and even if we do, we will not be able to communicate with each other as it would take more than a generation

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