If you’re bored, and fancy looking at some amazing science, then might I recommend you pop along to www.google.com/sky It might just blow your mind.
This week has been all things science. I’ve watched the two part documentary on Stephen Hawking, a National Geographic documentary on Huble (amusing as it was filmed years ago and the assumptions it made about what was going to happen in the future were ever so slightly askew) and now I’m in the middle of watching Contact.
The debate about being able to go into space is an interesting one. Whilst I’m a science geek at heart (even if I was lousy at it when I was at school, doesn’t help me being in awe of modern scientific achievements) and I’m not in the slightest way religious (lets not get started on that one), I don’t fancy going into space. I’m happy to sit here on earth, and let others have fun.
My mind is torn between exploring distant galaxies for other life, or the quest to understand how our galaxy was born. Perhaps with better understanding of where we came from we might be able to understand what life is out there, and how we can communicate with it. I still can’t get my mind around space being infinite, I mean surely, it’s got to stop somewhere? If it’s infinite, and galaxies are expanding how can they expand any further if space doesn’t stop? I know it’s the cliché from the teaching advert, but it’s quite true in asking, what the hell can we expand into?
Of course I’m all for SETI, I’m just a bit hesitant, not for the spiritual reasons that would bug so many, but because, well, you’ve seen what Hollywood has made of Sci-Fi… I’m sure not everything out there is good, there being so much hatred and suffering on our own planet, what makes us assume it’s going to be any better out there?
