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Because in about four billion years the Milky Way is going to “collide” with the Andromeda Galaxy.
Check out the video and the gorgeous shot of what the sky will look like (above)! Except that the sun will be too bright for any humans to be around to see it without “technological intervention.”
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June 1, 2012 at 3:16 am
moviedad
I’ve been having a lot of fun with an old telescope we bought at a yard sale. I never realized how difficult it is to site a good telescope in on something. You’d think the moon being this huge bright object in the sky would be easy to spot. But sometimes it’s really hard to get it dialed in.
On nights when there is no moon and the sky is clear, you can actually feel like you are floating in space. With the planets visible, it really does feel that way.
I appreciate it whenever you post space stuff, or music stuff. Thank God you take a break from all the politics. If I got some of the comments you get on a regular basis from your “Antagonists” (don’t want to use the word enemy) I’d have quit a long time ago.
It’s much more fun to talk about hurling galaxies and what will happen when we have “Time-Warp” capabilities.
Doesn’t it feel like we (mankind) are on the verge of something huge? Are they going to let the cat out of the bag about Aliens? Are we ready? I figure it must be time-travel. or they live “Inner-Earth” because of the distance issue.
Do you think a lot of these alien-battle movies are just primers for the big press-release that there are other intelligent life-forms and they’re already here?
See what I mean? It’s much more fun talking about this kind of stuff than talking about the Tea-Party putting a contract out on Obama,
June 1, 2012 at 5:12 am
Hank Sims
Guess we gotta start building that Ringworld pretty soon.
June 1, 2012 at 8:03 am
Anonymous
“It’s much more fun to talk about hurling galaxies and what will happen when we have “Time-Warp” capabilities.”
It’s even more fun to talk about how we already have them, how the power of our minds are dormant thanks entirely to the cattle culture in which we’ve all been raised since birth.
“Doesn’t it feel like we (mankind) are on the verge of something huge?’
Sure, but I keep it in perspective…and the proof is in every library in the world…that people have feelig like we’re on the verge of something huge for a very long time.
Fact is, we’re in the middle of something huge, to say the least, but we’ve been cattled down to think in cyclical terms around an 8 hour work day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year…etc. The natural surface of our planet that had been peacefully evolving for eons has been radiated, paved, electrified, pumped full of chemicals etc. etc. That kinda conversation typically depresses people like eric….or in the very least, they’re either not so willing or able to talk about it in depth.
Looking for some kind of miracle? If history is worth anything, the only one I’d bank on is a revolution of one’s own mind, to not be asleep during our life on this planet earth as the people who govern us continue to pollute life ot of her every single day.
June 1, 2012 at 8:11 am
Anonymous
Beam me up eric.!
June 1, 2012 at 8:16 am
Ernie's Place
I’m going to sound a lot like an echo here, but I also love science and nature. It causes me to simply wonder, not fret and worry about what should be changed as in politics. You just can’t stop time. No sense in trying to.
We aren’t the only intellegent creatures on this earth, there are criters that are way smarter than us in some ways. They have better senses and know things that humans can never know. Like, how do some critters know when there is going to be an earthquake or a storm. They must wonder why people are so stupid as to not know about the natural things around them. We are not the only ones to practice evil either, have you ever watched a cat kill a mouse?
June 1, 2012 at 8:27 am
Mitch
Evil?! That’s sheer joy. You just have to take the cat’s point of view.
June 1, 2012 at 9:45 am
Jane
You are assuming the human species will not die out like a flash in the pan (geologically) before then? Hmm.
June 1, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Anonymous
“You are assuming the human species will not die out like a flash in the pan (geologically) before then? Hmm.”
I think when people have children of their own, their brain stops allowing them a complete range of thought. As long as it’s not obvious their own children will die before they do, parents of school age children are skewed in optimism over reality. Until something rattles their personal cage, for whatever reason, then beware.
Thinking globally, society as we know it has already been falling apart. The worst is yet to come, not with a bang overnight, but same as always…some people only see day to day, political term to political term, year to year….
June 1, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Bolithio
I think when people have children of their own, their brain stops allowing them a complete range of thought. As long as it’s not obvious their own children will die before they do, parents of school age children are skewed in optimism over reality.
Thats interesting. So basically everyone should have children or you remain cynical, jaded, and do nothing to improve the world.
June 1, 2012 at 6:45 pm
j67k
Spoiler alert!
This is the reason that the high tech mechanical organisms in Alastair Reynolds’ ‘Revelation Space’ are exterminating any lifeforms that develop the ability to colonize other systems. They know it’s then only a matter of millions of years before they can then alter the course of solar systems.
That’s unacceptable, because they’ve already aligned the systems for minimal damage during the collision. They are trying to save 2 galaxies from serious damage, so no stinking monkey boys are going to mess things up for them…
June 2, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Eric Kirk
I think when people have children of their own, their brain stops allowing them a complete range of thought.
Well, that’s probably true. But defaulting to Richard Little is hardly an indication of creative or critical thinking. When is the last time you changed an opinion fundamental to your world view? When you switched from Michael Ruppert’s theories to Barry Zwicker’s?
June 7, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Anonymous
“When is the last time you changed an opinion fundamental to your world view? When you switched from Michael Ruppert’s theories to Barry Zwicker’s?”
I don’t even really know who either of those people are….but I bet I could drop a few fundamental names whose words of wisdom you’re probably not well read up on either…
“You’re as young as the last time you changed your mind.”…look that one up.
The last time I changed a fundamental view…I used to believe in our country’s definition of “democracy”. I would have said i was a “democrat”. But who wouldn’t want to be the first person to be able to argue their own selves wrong? You can find yourself coming to more resolute conclusions based on actual events. Through years of my own critical deconstruction I can’t argue that there is really either such thing as politics as we know it, it’s a complete facade that’s been going on longer than either of us have been alive. I once would have said I was athiest/agnostic, arguing “science” to the hilt…wow, I was ridiculously misguided. You is what you is, we is what we are…I now believe in the power of belief. Closer to home, I was fooled by bonnie neely’s campaign awhile back, wasn’t paying enough attention to the details of that race. I wish I hadn’t given her any words of support, but didn’t matter anyway. I have long ago dramatically changed my personal definition of “intelligence” , fully realizing communication is a two way street, and that this country’s educational process is something else entirely. I could tihnk of more but I gotta go…
what about you?
June 7, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Eric Kirk
Ruppert and Zwicker are truthers. It’s to your credit that you don’t recognize their names.