Jeez, now I’m officially a geek.. I’ve been using my idle CPU time on both my laptop and server computer to analyse RNA structures to benefit science and to aid in analysing transmission frequencies in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI@Home). LMFAO.. Well, it’s probably the only influence I can have in curing disease and as far as picking up any radio waves from outer space, it would be a couple hundred years before our nearest neighbours might be able to pick up our first television transmissions.. Everything we broadcast will emit itself for a long, long time across the vast reaches of space, perhaps, long after we’re gone.
The fact that we’re on this large rock with liquid on the surface and this gaseous cloud around it is insane. If you think about it? Our planet was hit by another planet.. Those things are very common in the formation of solar systems! Venus was hit so hard that it started spinning backwards and I believe it’s Venus’ days are longer than its years now. (That is the time it takes to rotate, vs. the time that it takes to circle around the sun.)
Maybe we shouldn’t always pay attention to the planets.. Saturn has a moon called Titan that has an atmosphere, mountains and lakes/rivers. It also has the right chemicals to form a reaction to start building organic compounds that life thrives off of. Although it’s rivers aren’t liquid water and they are also more like pudding.. Still, can you imagine gliding down through the atmosphere of another planet to see mountains and lakes and colours and features that are so like home?? I’ve just been thinking about shit like this lately and how crazy it is.
Saturn has this perfect hexagon shape right on the top of it! How the fuck does shit like that happen? Most people don’t even know about that.. Jupiter has a moon called Europa. It has way more water than the Earth. Although it’s closer to the size of our moon.. So, imagine how much water it’s made of? Also, you figure it would be insanely cold out there, so far away from our sun, but because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter on it, as it orbits around, it’s orbit goes long and short. When it’s closest to Jupiter, the gravitational pull of Jupiter warps the shape of it and makes cracks all over the icy surface, which also heats the moon up! So there can be this warm bed of water under the ice. Water is one very important factor in there being life in the Universe and we’ve been finding it all over the place.
It sucks to know that we wont be here forever.. Eventually our planet will no longer be able to sustain life and it will lose the atmosphere, also our sun will scorch our planet, then go off to implode itself and then explode.. Damn stars are getting suicidal on our asses! I don’t blame them, because also, at the centre of our galaxy is a huge black hole.. So… basically we are very slowly going down the toilet drain. Eventually all of our particles will get sucked in, compacted very densely and spewed across the universe, in a burst that might just destroy some innocent beings precious home planet in an instant..
Right now our galaxy is heading on a collision course with another galaxy and some day, way beyond the very instantly short blip of time that life has existed on earth, the night skies will change beyond recognition. Everything will be so much brighter.. The only chance of mankind to survive is to get out of here.. This reminds me of this group of people, whom I can’t remember their name, when I was reading about, (where the pentagram came from) and it’s relation to Phi (The Golden Ratio). Maybe they were right. Lol. They said that the Universe was an evil trap that they were put into and that they had to find a way to escape it.. You can’t run forever, because one day, just like your life will end, mankind will end and the universe will end.. But, it’s very unlikely we will consciously as humans will be around to witness the end of the Universe. The Universe is such a freaky and utterly dangerous place, we’re so insanely lucky to exist in such a serene blip of time. Time exists on such a grand scale we only perceive it as being stable, but look around you and you’ll see that it’s not.
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll write something a bit more normal and skip out on the crash course jackass physics lessons.. haha.