With all our consciousness, intelligence, emotional intelligence, even spiritual intelligence, humanity has forever left the animal kingdom. We control our own future. So we have to do something about global warming. After all, we're responsible!But maybe you should see the earth as a big ball of energy and people as microscopic flames that light up for a moment and then die (be born and die). And that all those small flames heat up other energy sources. Like stars that shoot their sparks everywhere. Often without any influence, but sometimes a single spark can start a huge fire. And maybe there are so many flames (up to 9 billion people) created because the earth is heating up (there are already more flames) instead of the other way around. Not through better health care, more safety or better food. That's our rationalization of the whole.
Maybe it's wired differently from ho we believe. Than we hope perhaps. If we look at it from energy, from the size of the universe, we see the insignificance of the earth, and the insignificance of human beings. Below the grandness of the earth in a shitty perspective.
Stars that are much bigger than red giants or become giant stars, just like Antares and Betelgeuse, catalogued as supergiants. The biggest star known until the end of 2004 was Mu Cephei in the constellation Cepheus. This star has a radius of eleven(!) astronomical units, and one astronomical unit is equivalent to the average distance between the earth and the sun, almost 150 million kilometers.
Since the beginning of 2005 three new supergiants have been discovered. Namely KW Sagittarii at a distance of 9800 light years, C354 Cephei at a distance of 9000 light years and KY Cygni at a distance of 5200 light years. The radius of all three is 1500 bigger than of our sun. Place them in the middle of our solar system and they’ll stretch to halfway across the rings of Jupiter and Saturn. But even they are nothing compared to the biggest supergiant VY Canis Majoris (at a distance of 5000 light years).
At techdo.com you can find a slideshow that, like the above images, shows the insignificance of the earth.
This post is based on the wonderful weblog grenswetenschap.nl. Why here on ErwinVanLun.com? I believe that the future of the earth, of life on earth, humanity and the way we shape the world has a bidirectional direct connection to the universe, with everything there is. Bi-directional because our behavior too influences other life on earth, influences the rest of the galaxy. After all, it’s one whole.
In that sense the future is also completely fixed. Into the smallest detail. Just like the past. The only thing we don’t know, aren’t consciously aware of, is how that future is going to look. And even if we’d know then humanity’s changing behavior would have been predetermined a well. So we can’t influence the future. Yet some things can change if we consciously start to act differently, that’s as fixed as the result. That choice we appeared to make was completely prompted. This gives us the feeling that we can influence the future without really doing so.
Finally a real post that goes in the category twists.