You can also leave the politics behind, hopefully. Considering Greece and Rome were felled by traitors and barbarians, I see a parallel to our own age, unfortunately.
On Sep 12, 7:33 am, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote: > If we are lucky we will forget to pack our religion when we leave. > This will greatly reduce the chance of taking our wars with us. :) > > 2009/9/12 Slip Disc <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > So in 5 billion years we'll finally have some peace on earth, great! > > Perhaps by then the probability that there will be discovery of other > > habitable orbs and ability to transverse galaxies to get there, will > > be greatly increased if not already accomplished. Even if we have to > > jump from space station to space station, we will extend our reach. > > We can take our wars and chaos somewhere else. > > > On Sep 11, 7:04 pm, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oh yes, indeed we are lucky to spend some time on this knife's edge. > >> But it is fleeting in cosmological terms. The Sun is a yellow, G2 V > >> main sequence dwarf. Yellow dwarfs live about 10 billion years (from > >> zero-age main sequence to white dwarf > >> formation), and our Sun is already about 5 billion years old. We are > >> half way to oblivion. > > >> The Sun is losing its mass and with every minute we inch further away. > >> We should enjoy it while we can because eventually the chaos of the > >> universe will extinguish us like so many before and so many yet to > >> come. > > >> 2009/9/11 Slip Disc <[email protected]>: > > >> > I'm sure you can move closer, or farther, depending upon your > >> > perspective, in order to absorb more than 160 tons of solar energy, > >> > which may render you more like the chard remnants of the forgotten rib > >> > rack on my outdoor gas grill. I think a better perspective might be > >> > how delicately balanced everything is in order for us to survive > >> > within a violent environment such as the universe. > > >> > On Sep 11, 4:13 pm, 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
