Arcs orbits and other astronomical anomalies
It's said the universe abhors a vacuum.
People say a lot of crap.
Now theories of the universes destruction and creation are pointing to black holes! The biggest sucking lack of everything since a kirby rep first knocked on a door. (or "The Situation" becoming famous).
Seems to me everything in the known material universe operates in arcs, curves, parabolic orbits and all other manner of non-linear fashion.
So getting right to my point, even though a straight line might be the fastest way to get somewhere. I can't say it's the most natural.
Well what about objects in motion... until acted upon by outside forces.. etc etc... Well, I think we can say quite certainly nothing truly exists in a vacuum. Well.. Dog hair, maybe.
No object I'm aware of is not subject to the effects of outside forces.
Gravity gets us all in the end, ask Dolly P. Thankfully science can combat the forces of nature and bend her rules like a superhero fighting evil and steel bars. Which is why we can keep miss Parton perky and why CNN can comment on Boeing's research into anti-gravity propulsion technologies (here's a hint, the aliens left if for us in a nevada christmas stocking)
Did I have a point? I feel like all these universal concepts apply to our social contexts as well. We try like all hell to live in a straight line shooting for a some elusive goal at the end of the race. But the end of the race is the black hole. Death. The place nothing escapes from and where the whole universe is going. Sounds depressing? It is. But it's also the natural progression of life the universe and everything, 42 be dammed. (maybe someday we will learn that 42 times the speed of light is the magic number required to escape a black holes gravitational pull once your inside the event horizon. But I digress.)
So I suggest that you embrace your elliptical orbit, the slow path that revolves around all the other heavenly bodies which populate your universe.
When people feel like they are pulling you into their lives, they are.
It's only natural. We all have a gravitational field around us. Attracting some, some times we slingshot another away. Came in to fast and smashed into us, throwing up a cloud that extinguished all our dinosaurs and allowed a new bipedal mammal to flourish. To find reason and science and gods and goddess and to seek understanding of the world around us to the point where we're spending more time seeking a paycheck or the meaning of the universe than we are being grateful to have had the opportunity to exist..
Let that black hole exist and let it have it's slow draw on us. But I hope I for one I can wind down to it having seen all that the universe could show me until there was nothing left for me but to explore the other side of that gravity well. Where I will wait for it to swallow the matter of being until it's so full it explodes into the creation of another universe!
What did your face look like before you were born?
People say a lot of crap.
Now theories of the universes destruction and creation are pointing to black holes! The biggest sucking lack of everything since a kirby rep first knocked on a door. (or "The Situation" becoming famous).
Seems to me everything in the known material universe operates in arcs, curves, parabolic orbits and all other manner of non-linear fashion.
So getting right to my point, even though a straight line might be the fastest way to get somewhere. I can't say it's the most natural.
Well what about objects in motion... until acted upon by outside forces.. etc etc... Well, I think we can say quite certainly nothing truly exists in a vacuum. Well.. Dog hair, maybe.
No object I'm aware of is not subject to the effects of outside forces.
Gravity gets us all in the end, ask Dolly P. Thankfully science can combat the forces of nature and bend her rules like a superhero fighting evil and steel bars. Which is why we can keep miss Parton perky and why CNN can comment on Boeing's research into anti-gravity propulsion technologies (here's a hint, the aliens left if for us in a nevada christmas stocking)
Did I have a point? I feel like all these universal concepts apply to our social contexts as well. We try like all hell to live in a straight line shooting for a some elusive goal at the end of the race. But the end of the race is the black hole. Death. The place nothing escapes from and where the whole universe is going. Sounds depressing? It is. But it's also the natural progression of life the universe and everything, 42 be dammed. (maybe someday we will learn that 42 times the speed of light is the magic number required to escape a black holes gravitational pull once your inside the event horizon. But I digress.)
So I suggest that you embrace your elliptical orbit, the slow path that revolves around all the other heavenly bodies which populate your universe.
When people feel like they are pulling you into their lives, they are.
It's only natural. We all have a gravitational field around us. Attracting some, some times we slingshot another away. Came in to fast and smashed into us, throwing up a cloud that extinguished all our dinosaurs and allowed a new bipedal mammal to flourish. To find reason and science and gods and goddess and to seek understanding of the world around us to the point where we're spending more time seeking a paycheck or the meaning of the universe than we are being grateful to have had the opportunity to exist..
Let that black hole exist and let it have it's slow draw on us. But I hope I for one I can wind down to it having seen all that the universe could show me until there was nothing left for me but to explore the other side of that gravity well. Where I will wait for it to swallow the matter of being until it's so full it explodes into the creation of another universe!
What did your face look like before you were born?
posted by Brad O'Brien at 12:21 PM
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