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Really, living on the sun wouldn’t be much different from living on the Earth.
If I lived on the sun, I would still probably write in my blog and go out and get exercise and try to get my friends and family on the phone to see what was going on with them. I’d probably go out with people to the movies and for dinner and also spend some time at home, too. The biggest difference, probably, is while I was doing all of those things — I’d be on fire.
Let’s take a little jaunt into the center of my brain.
I often find myself driving in my car on a road or a freeway or one of those frontage road things on the side of a freeway and I pull up next to another car driving around the same speed as me. And while my car and their car hovers around the same area I turn to look at them.
Oh, look. It’s an old guy with big black glasses who is squinting at the road. Oh, look. It’s a young teenager who looks way too young to be driving, or talking on her cell phone. Oh, look. It’s the new nuclear family (father, mother, two boys, a girl, and three toy dogs) all frustrated to still be in their car on such a sunny day.
Airplanes are pretty damn heavy pieces of metal, if you ask me.
I have been known to, in the past, test the floating capabilities of different types of metals in my constant quest to understand physics. I have thrown items like crowbars and car parts into the sky and they have quickly found their way back to Earth, landing on fleshy places like my shoulder and head.
But Airplanes? These things way at least a few pounds more than crowbars and car mufflers and yet they hover in mid-air while packed to the hilt with things like, oh I don’t know, people!? Yeah, and snack boxes and all the Apple-Cranberry juice in a can you could ever want to drink.
The Universe is infinite. If you speed away from planet Earth and go one direction you will continue to go one direction forever and ever and ever and ever; never seeing something a second time. But really, how can that be?
The Universe is finite. If you speed away from planet Earth and go one direction you will eventually reach the end and find yourself back where you began; a neverending circular ribbon of time. But really, then what’s on the other side of that ‘end’?
Every time I have this debate with my inner-self, my head is about to implode, explode and my eyes are about to suck back into my head like the time they were there before I was born.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on Mars last night and is sending pictures to Earth with a delay of only nine minutes. Speed of light, eh buddy? Pretty crazy.
How do we know it isn’t just a desert here on Earth?
I’ll tell you this - it’s pretty damn amazing that we have the technology to send a ship into space, land it on a foreign planet and then send back pictures at the delay rate of nine minutes. It frustrates me actually, that this country hasn’t made more strides in getting space travel and exploration going at a quicker rate. On the same token, there’s so much that hasn’t been explored here on Earth, below the sea. There’s SO MUCH down there we have not found.
Words for My Enjoyment is the official blog of writer Paul Davidson. He lives in Los Angeles where, well, the magic happens.
