Obsessed. June 22, 2008

Some categories: thoughts. Some tags: , , , . And exactly 2 rambling responses.

I am completely obsessed with space. Not like the average 5-yr old boy playing with his toy space shuttle, I mean obsessed, mentally obsessed. When I look into the sky, I think space, when I look into the night, I think space, when I sleep, I think space. It won’t leave!

More specifically than space, it’s the relativity of the whole “thing” (the universe & whatnot). If there are as many starts as grains of sand, and each star has some planets, then what the hell is the human race doing killing ourselves? Fighting over oil and land? Why aren’t we getting out there, because other lifeforms must exist, somewhere there is a planet containing lifeforms. The problem is distance, we simply can’t travel fast enough. All I think of is how insignificant we are, the tiniest little blip in the universe, what’s out there? The desire for knowledge which I can never get is going to kill my brain. I have to know.

It’s strange though, while I do physics and maths at A-Level, I won’t be continuing down that path, I’m going the more creative route. Anyway, I guess becoming an astronaut is pointless if (at least, in my lifetime, and yours, and the next generations, and possibly beyond) the human race will never get anywhere beyond the Solar System (heck, they haven’t even done that yet). I may as well give up, but my brain wont let me.

I’m obsessed.

Out there May 13, 2008

Some categories: pointless. Some tags: , , . And exactly no rambling responses.

What is out there? I looked up at the night sky earlier while taking out the bins and the moon was half hidden behind a strangely beautiful arrangement of clouds. Every time I look up I get the same feeling “what is out there”. There must be something.

They say there is a star for every grain of sand in the world, billions upon billions of them. Each one is an entire solar system. The chances of a planet perfect to contain life that has actually developed life must be huge, almost guaranteed in fact. It’s such a shame we can’t just have a look around.