I watched a number of Science channel episodes on the universe yesterday. They were all quite enlightening. Not all the information was new. However, the information turned my mind to how majestic the universe is all over again. Several of the pictures delivered to us from the Hubble telescope amaze with their clarity of many of the nearby galaxies and galaxy networks. The number of stars represented in the skies outside the Milky Way is boggling. The number of planets circling those stars make the mind spin with calculations.
So, when I look up at night from my humble home on Earth and peer through a haze of an atmosphere, my mind goes wild with imagination. What life is peering back at us outside our galaxy? Where is that life? What form does it have? Have they been around longer than humans? Are religions the same on all planets? Does intelligent life have governments like Earth's? Is there love and marriage and sex on those planets? Can others exist outside of the three dimensions humans exist in? What do they know that we don't know?
I feel a little trapped, being here on Earth. But one day, before I die, I hope to see at least the planets up close and personal in our solar system in all of their holographic beauty. I would love to simulate walking on Neptune or flying past Pluto. I can die satisfied whenever that happens.
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