[meteorite-list] Viral Humanity, Insignificant Denial. Evolution of Thought & Knowledge

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:20:29 -0700
Message-ID: <4A94397D.2050800_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Hi everyone,

A Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7wNQw12l8
Though I disagree with the narrators obvious bias of capable human
understanding, I think I can look past that and view the universe for
what it is, and what we are to the universe in scale, both in size and time.

We are in fact minuscule and insignificant when compared to the vastness
of our known universe. Our lives, averaging only 70-80 years long, would
not show so much leas a blip on the plotted timeline of our galaxy
alone, much less the the entire universe.

Light itself travels 186,000 miles per second. Do most people really
understand how fast that truly is? Do people realize how long it would
take to travel ANYWHERE in our universe? Do most people realize that
when they look out at night and see the stars we love so much that they
are looking "Back in Time"? Stars are literally a window to our past,
and the door to the future.

Granted, our argument for contact with alien life usually is accompanied
by the assumptive prediction that it might be more technologically
advanced than us... but what about something more close to home.

We're here! We do exist (aside from philosophy). And our universe is
real. and huge.

How the hell can someone actually believe that we are the only living
intelligent beings capable of technological advancement?

That seems right along the understanding and wave length of the 13 and
14th century explorers who thought the world was flat, and the fact that
we thought the Sun revolved around us, or ancient beliefs that the stars
were gods!

Our understanding is growing everyday. The size of the universe and our
part in it is not fully understood.

Yet...

Our insignificance is only outweighed by our ignorance. Though some
might argue that it's our arrogant assumption of significance that
dictates our understanding.

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

P.S. I think I'm all philosphied out right now... ;)



Meteorites USA wrote:
> Interesting perspective. I always thought it looked rather like
> bacteria growth in a petri dish.
>
> Kinda sad really. Maybe you're right. Maybe we are parasites on the
> earth. Using up Earth's natural resources, devouring the planet, and
> chewing up the growth media that is the land. When we're finished
> maybe we'll start to devour ourselves, notwithstanding we might even
> destroy ourselves completely with fire by war as the disease of
> humanity spreads forth across the Earth.
>
> Hmmm... Ok maybe that's a little melodramatic and over the top, but
> when viewed from space and outside our little bubble of Earth, it's
> certainly easy to see we're having a great impact on our planet.
>
> What if these aliens we we're talking about are way more
> technologically advanced by millions of years of adaptation and
> genetic engineering enough to have evolved their thought processes to
> see early human, or humanoid life as threats to developing planets? If
> extra terrestrial life exists and they are much more technologically
> and intellectually advanced than us, we might be in trouble if they
> ever come visit.
>
> What if we are the virus that infests the living cells of the universe
> called planets? I've seen video animations or simulations of what our
> universe looks like from the outside as the camera slowly zooms out
> from our planet showing first our system, then other systems, then our
> own galaxy, galaxy clusters, and large dark voids between clusters,
> and finally what seem to be pathways between these super clusters of
> galaxies which are not unlike the neural pathways in our own brains.
>
> Are we merely a virus, living on a brain cell of a larger living
> organism?
>
> Gives a new perspective on Rob's earlier comment that our reality
> isn't really real.
>
> Maybe it's just relative...
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
>
>
>
>
> Steve Schoner wrote:
>> Alien life discussion is interesting, but, this is what our cities
>> look like from space:
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/5973258/Cities-at-night-from-space-photographed-by-NASA-astronauts-on-the-International-Space-Station.html
>>
>>
>> Looks like mold.
>>
>> Our planet is rotting!
>>
>> Steve Schoner
>> IMCA #447m
>>
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