The Final Frontier

Is space really the final frontier?

No, knowledge, art, music are, not space. 

Space, is our destiny. 

Knowledge, and the artistic and musical interpretations along the way, our 'final' frontiers, and they are endless.  

Mother Earth is Expecting

The entirety of human endeavor to date - since the very dawn of time - evolution, hunter gatherers, city states and great civilizations, war, and struggles, riches and kingdoms - all of human construct - all of it - reduces to kegal exercises for our birth to space. 

For we begin, truly begin, only when we leave earth. 

Kegal Exercises

Space is not the final frontier 

Space is our destiny.

for how can nearly everything there is be a fronteir?

On a cosmic scale earth is so small as to nearly not exist. 

and so we will one day leave earth to explore an immensity nearly endless in size containing a nearly infinite number of frontiers, within frontiers, within fronteirs.

We have planets and moons and asteroids to explore 

Ort clouds and stars and their planets and moons - each worlds of their own. 

Galaxies, a trillion fold, each with their 200 million stars and their planets. 

My god - the final frontier? 

Earth is more like our birth canal - space the beginning of everything 

Paris

It is not just the shadows. Like so much of Paris it is all the little things, combined adding up to such elegance, warmth, beauty - and richness. Geometry, color, light, shadow, all serving to embrace one with such love, promise, life. 

Look Up

The Kármán line lies 62 miles above sea level marking the end of our atmosphere and the beginning of 'outer space'.

The temperature there is about - 450 degrees F and it is nearly devoid of oxygen or atmospheric pressure. I would die almost instantly if exposed to it.

62 miles is 1.6% of the Earths radius - pretty thin - not a whole lot of protection.

This 'outer space' then goes on for about 98 billion light years. The distance light travels in 98 billion years at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

I have come to exist on a very small, very fragile globe, this earth, floating in a horrific vacuum surrounded by an immensity I cannot imagine. I live just next door to an ongoing thermonuclear explosion a million times earth's size - our sun - and face forces that could sterilize earth or even vaporize it in an instant. Nearly everything there is in the universe exists outside of my direct experience, outside of earth.

And yet, even knowing this, even after seeing photos of the entire earth floating as a beautiful blue white globe in the blackness of space, or as a pale blue dot from a distance of 3.7 billion miles by voyager - so many of us almost never look up.

Engrossed in shallow human construct, imagined empire building, and incredibly ego-centric naughtiness - we almost never look up.

Earth is everything. Well actually our country is everything. Well actually the length of our noses defines everything. And all the while nearly everything there is - is up. To look up into such immensity, really look, would provide a humility that could only foster tolerance, kindness, and a deep respect for all of life on this tiny planet. We are all in this together - all of life on earth - against immense odds - and we simply must respect our planet and all of life on it if we are to have any chance at survival.

But instead we choose to ignore nearly everything there is and live within the confines of shallow human construct and ignorance.

How very silly

How very fatal

Universe 2.0

The speed of light is seemingly random. There is nothing that explains why it has to be 300,000km/sec, except perhaps the processor speed of a simulation computer. 

The speed of light as a function of processor speed - one function per 300,000 km per second. 

Evidence we live in a simulation? 

Upgrade the computer and let's see if it changes.

Solid gold, made 4500 years ago. It is of the god Osiris and his family. Wealth is a human construct, as is god. Both have no real meaning beyond believing that they do. But here, entangled within these shallow constructs, shines the artistic spirit and capacity for goodness in all of humankind.