For this weeks quote, I wish I could take the entire reading as a quote. I love the solar system and all that it provides so much, it truly satisfies my taste for mystery in the world we live in. However I can only choose one quote so the one I choose is: “From the tiniest throbs and wobbles of distant stars they can infer the size and character and even potential habitability of planets much too remote to be seen—planets so distant that it would take us half a million years in a spaceship to get there”
The reason I choose this quote is because it really reminds me a lot of how large our solar system is and all of the hidden mysteries behind it. It is something that strikes a certain nerve in my brain that brings up large amount of questions, comments, and general feedback.
To start, the solar system freaks me out. It is so vast and although there are no other forms of life that we know of, there are millions of other minerals, gases, and just general pieces of life that we know about. I really want to become something like an astronomer, I mean not really because I am very impatient and would hate to wait so long just to find a piece of stardust. But imagine finding life on another planet—that would be crazy! And just because some scientist says there are no other life forms out there do I have to believe it?
I don’t think I do, and this is where so many questions come up about the solar system. Who else is out there looking at us? Asking if we are the only life form out there that doesn’t have communications with the rest of space yet? What planets are out there that will help us in the future of the earth? There are so many questions to ask about space and there are so many that have been asked. All I know is that space is something that will forever interest me.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
QQC 06/10/11
"Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. And that's it for you." In this quote Bill Bryson is presenting the fact that even the longest life is ungraspingly short in the timespan of the universe. And then you're done.
This really makes me think. And Bryson isn't the first person to bring up this point, or say this, and every single time I hear it it makes me think. It makes me realize that life is a short deal, and that you really need to live every moment in it the best you can. You need to take risks and chances to try to excite your life, but not enough to make it any shorter than it already is. Every time I hear this I always try to excite my life, and do things I normally wouldn't. However Bryson puts a certain twist on this semi-famous saying, one I have yet to hear in my short life.
Bryson compares the short life that human beings have to the atoms that create our body, and to the universe itself. He declares that your life isn't just short, and you don't just die, the atoms in your body simply disassemble. And like previously stated, that is it for you. This brings up the question for me: What is our actual reason to be here on earth? We were brought here, and given such short lives, there must be a fairly simple reason we are here. And why hast anybody figured it out yet?
This really makes me think. And Bryson isn't the first person to bring up this point, or say this, and every single time I hear it it makes me think. It makes me realize that life is a short deal, and that you really need to live every moment in it the best you can. You need to take risks and chances to try to excite your life, but not enough to make it any shorter than it already is. Every time I hear this I always try to excite my life, and do things I normally wouldn't. However Bryson puts a certain twist on this semi-famous saying, one I have yet to hear in my short life.
Bryson compares the short life that human beings have to the atoms that create our body, and to the universe itself. He declares that your life isn't just short, and you don't just die, the atoms in your body simply disassemble. And like previously stated, that is it for you. This brings up the question for me: What is our actual reason to be here on earth? We were brought here, and given such short lives, there must be a fairly simple reason we are here. And why hast anybody figured it out yet?
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