Bruce writes:

> One of Dan Goldin's most arresting visions is a kindergarten classroom of
>  2025 with pictures of blue and cloudy planets on the walls -- planets
>  with strangely-shaped continents, circling other stars. Extrasolar
>  planets as places, not just Doppler shifts.

I'm sure that this is one of the reasons that people such as Nevill Woolf
roll their eyes. This is an enormously tougher proposition to accomplish than
this short sentence sounds like it ought to be.

Right at the moment, we can't "see" any of the extrasolar planets that have
been discovered. If we ever get them so that they can be resolved out of
their central star's glare as simply a distinct point of light, that's going
to have to be described as something close to a miracle.

Wirt Atmar

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