Kind of thinking “different” here lately, didn’t notice it until recently. I catch myself thinking, “I need a couple of twenties for gas.” … Or … “I need to drop by the bank for three or four twenties, I am almost out of gas.” Never did that before. Used to be I would just think …… I need to get some gasoline, now I find myself not so much thinking about the product itself, but HOW I AM GOING TO PURCHASE IT instead of filling up.
Anyone else, doing that?
Sitting here this morning, fresh cup of coffee and kind of listening to some tunes and staring at the river. If you don’t know what it is that I am talking about (which is a pretty safe bet, because most of the time, I have the very same problem) here is a picture of it. It comes from the NASA link on my page, over there to the right.
It is often mind boggling to me, when you take time out of your somewhat busy and hectic day to realize that there are 100 billion galaxies in our solar system (estimated). Each containing an average of 100 billion stars in each galaxie.
So the odds (in my opinion) are very good that we are not alone in all this, the existence of sentient ET’s is just a matter of math and logic. Back in ’69 when man first stepped on the moon, the excitement factor was somewhat justified, but finding others in the heavens, now that would be something to shout about eh?
So I guess I am running in some pretty good company this morning. Darwin who said that we all came from monkeys, Copernicus and Galileo who were not all that popular when they told everyone that the earth wasn’t all that flat, even in Kansas.
Last week the Vatican actually admitted that “extraterrestrial brothers and sisters” could very well be out there. So I am feeling better about the entire thing. I take a moment to contemplate it all, to stare off as Captain Kirk used to say … “Out There.” … And I forget about for a minute or two, high gas, war, people living on the ragged edge of life.
Perhaps someone is out there, and if this might be true, then I sure hope they can show us a better way of doing all this.
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The coffee is good this morning here as well. You know, some people claim to have met ETs, spoken with them and all.
Reporting that in fact our planet is visited often by several species of other worldly folk.
Sort of like the very first exhibit at the zoo.
Comment by localmalcontent — June 26, 2008 @ 6:17 AM
Good to see you back LM I have missed ya. Was I right about the bicycle thing on your site? Tell me … Tell me… Inquiring minds want to know. Did you download the new browser?
I love the NASA site, there is stuff on there that will just blow you away, you can sit there for hours and just stare at it and wonder … I hope I never lose the wonder LM, I want to wonder about it till the day I check out.
DS
Comment by Don Smith — June 26, 2008 @ 6:26 AM
I love the NASA site too – such wonderful pics.
Do you know if there is intelligent life out there, and they’re watching the mess this planet is in, they’ll be apalled – and I’ll be ashamed to be human.
What with a third of the world starving, another third overweight or obese, a large portion of people not even having access to clean water, wars raging, slavery of one sort or another still occuring, squabling over religion, and all the other “cimes” mankind is guilty of…
Comment by Author — June 26, 2008 @ 7:45 AM
It certainly is something to think about isn’t it? There I go again, I hate it when I end a sentence like that. What boggles my mind, is when you look at the vastness of it all, the entire picture, and you stop and realize that “each small dot” could be a distant galaxie(s) far bigger than our present solar system and that there could possibly be hundreds of thousands, who knows, millions of them out there.
I go over there just about every day, not always agreeing with everything NASA is doing, but I am sure for funding for research like this, I like this.
DS
Comment by Don Smith — June 27, 2008 @ 5:56 AM