I was out soaking in the hot tub, looking up at the few stars that I could see, and pondering the beauty of The Universe. The first thing that I thought about was what a difficult time the believers in the 6,000 year old Universe would have when their kids said, Wait a minute! If were only a 6,000 year old Universe, How do we get beautiful pictures from Hubble of Galaxies 4,000,000,000 light years away, just as they are forming? But then, I thought of a much bigger and really more devastating question. Now, we are finding something that I had always suspected...that vast numbers of those stars have planets in temperate ranges where life is possible if not likely. I think that with the hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, each with hundreds of billions of stars, it is safe to say that there ARE civilizations on other planets. Now, Here is the devastating and, I think, SAD question....HOW WOULD WE EARTHLINGS STACK UP? Lets run some things through a set of computers that are called our brains. Perhaps you can add some information that will make the output look not so bad. As the civilization of earthlings, we are quite willing to dirty, no poison our waterways with chemical wastes as well as using new technologies such as fracking to get at the fossil fuel resources buried deep beneath the surface of the Earth. These policies have both been shown to poison the drinking water of many for the financial benefit of the few--and these things are happening around the world. At the same time, we earthlings are willing to release toxic chemicals into the air for the sake of reducing costs to manufacturers. We again use those same fossil fuels that we spoke of earlier because of their profitability rather than working to develop an energy policy based on clean fuel. Here in the United States, we complain about the folks who try to keep the air and water clean, because they make it too hard to make TREMENDOUS rather than just large profits--the EPA. So, that information going into the computers....and what comes out is that it is each earthling for himself or herself, but the computer also knows that, for a civilization to survive, then that civilization must work together for its survival. But, then, we also have to ask....Do we really even want earthlings to survive? One would think so.....but then, look at some of the numbers. Go to whatever source you like and look at the annual spending of the United States and excepting Social Security and Medicare (which are not part of the budget), we spend vastly more on tools for war than anything else. More for war than education, more than food for the hungry, more than scientific research into new forms of energy, more than we spend for making sure that mothers to be get prenatal care, more than we spend on making homelessness a thing of the past, more than we spend on helping family farmers increase their harvests.....That is tools to destroy the civilization of Earthlings. And so do other countries, with their artificially drawn, manmade (by those same men who poison rivers for profits and pour CO2 into our air at alarming rates) borders. I doubt that the civilization of Earthlings stands up very well to many of those billions of others out there---and that is why my question is sad.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:45:36 +0000
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