More or less SJ - but so what? I mean this respectfully, in the sense that so what from here seems to be to be what we are short of.
On 11 Sep, 22:13, sjewins <[email protected]> wrote: > There are an amazing series of flaws that constitute the universe, > from its appalling celestial waste to its meagre and slipshod powers > of sustaining life. The uselessness of satellites, their sole function > being to whirl incessantly around their parent bodies in aimless > revolutions, does not speak of intelligent design. Neither does the > incalculable stellar wastage caused by undirected forces -- damaged > moons, smashed planets, burst stars due to overly-rapid rotation -- > point to the possibility that there is a "Celestial Engineer" in > charge. > > Earth's cosmic clock is ticking as our sun radiates away its energy > into desert space (thereby losing its weight also), squandering > 360,000 million tons of energy every day of which only 160 tons reach > our planet, or less than one two-thousand-millionth part of the total > radiation. The energy not wasted is greatly misdirected, with not > enough to sustain life in our polar regions, and too much in the > burning deserts of Mongolia and Africa. As the sun loses its weight at > the rate of 4 million tons a second, so it correspondingly loses its > gravitational hold on the earth. Slowly but steadily, our planet is > drifting away from the sun and there is no escaping the inevitability > of earth's destiny -- to become just another of the billions of > lifeless globes carrying nothing but the frozen remains of what were > once living beings. > > But oh how beautiful the universe is! Hubble's photographs show > incredible random abstract beauty. In a universe that contains so much > that is the same as that from which we arose it is absurd to think > that we are alone. I think the universe is teeming with life. > Intelligent like us, less so, and moreso. There are civilizations that > have been around for 100 times as long as we and have undoubtedly > discovered the secrets that we dream of. Have grown away from the > monsters in childhood closets that are the gods. There are also surely > those younger than us who are still inventing their gods to explain > what they experience around them. > > We have one thing in common. We are all stardust. From stars we came > and to stars we will return. Our molecules drifting towards and beyond > this beautiful universe that we call home. Stare at the stars and see > your past and your future. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
