Saturday, October 27, 2007
Mars is best shot in this lifetime
Friday, October 19, 2007
Where do UFO's originate??
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
ET exists, no doubt
Monday, October 8, 2007
How big is Big??
I loved showing this photo to my students, 8th graders. I made the room dark as possible and let them look at it. And then I would proceed to question what they were seeing. Most would quickly respond "stars". But to explain to them that they were looking at galaxies, lots of them, some became quite awed.
When we look up at the stars we are looking at suns, billions of them, some bigger some smaller, but really what we see is a portion of our galaxy. And when you have a clear dark night away from the city and you see the Mily Way and realize we are not just looking at the stars, but we are in fact, looking into the eye of our origins. A face to face meeting with awareness of our smallness and insignificance, or significance depending how you view it.
And to make things weirder, looking up into the speckled cloak of night is a look back into time. It took the light millions years to travel across space and enter my eye so that I might have this realization. Wow. So if the nearest star to us went into supernova (which I'm not sure it can, don't think it is big enough -Alfa Centurai will have to check this??) we wouldn't even know for over FOUR YEARS!! Thats the closest one!! It is quite wonderous to look up to the stars and find constellations and planets. But it is another thing to come to revelations about what you are actually looking at. It is a weirdly sublime sensation.
Back to the photo. We are not just a speck on the photo, we are a speck of a speck. A billionth of a speck. And how many galaxies can we see in the picture? And how many more are there? You get a similar type of cosmic feeling looking at this . And you can, maybe not comprehend, but get an idea of the vastness that is vast. We don't have words that can describe phenomena like this. Infinity. If we could zoom out, where would we end? And when would we stop zooming in?
So this leads me in a Drake way, I suppose, to wonder where they are . We are here. In an arm in the Milky Way. A medium sized star, third planet out. We call it Earth. Where are you?
Sunday, October 7, 2007
About this blog
This is not your everyday, report the most absurd sensationalistic garbage type of blog. I'm not interested in what I know or feel to be fake stories. I don't care for sensationalism. The subject may be sensational enough anyway, without the self-promoting alien-envoking lecture. I want to know the truth. Are there intelligent beings of some kind that visit people on our planet? Is there an afterlife? Why can't we find this hairy man in the woods? (psssstt....maybe he doesn't exist)
Other questions as well. What is the nature of biological life throuout the universe? Why have we evolved into this remarkable conscious intelligent being that considers an episode of Dancing with the Stars time well spent? Certainly we are not at the pinnacle of our potential. Could there possibly be a species that is more intelligent than US??
I'll tell you what I think right now and as I change my mind I'll reveal that as well. There are UFO's. They are really there. Sure, not all of them are real, but some are, I'm convinced. I don't know what they are, but they appear to be under intelligent control. I say they appear to be. This doesn't mean that they are. But what I am saying is that this phenomena is real. The problem is getting any type of meaningful attention. This is due to the asylum that is ufology. So many people, with so many agendas. Insanity is a prerequisite for many people in this field.
I'll also spill this disclaimer. I am an armchair researcher at best. I don't go out and interview and investigate. I do the best I can with the information from I can get. From this I build my own assumptions. I am not a believer because belief is irrelevant. I'm not a "debunker" because I maintain an open mind. I accept all possibilities but carry a filter with me. I want truth, whether boring and mundane, or spectacular and sublime. I want to explore these topics as deeply as I can and I appreciate any feedback and additional information that I can get.