So, this is a typical Sunday here at home...laundry, Pioneer Woman, coffee, Fixer Upper, email, Brunch at Bobby's, coffee, guitar noodling, Property Brothers, start a new project, wine, abandon project, paint something, dinner, wine, Bob's Burgers. Every Sunday, I end up watching more television than I'd like to, ultimately obligating myself to some type of home renovation project and hungry for something beyond my culinary capabilities.
Anyone see the Perseid meteor shower last night? I spent about an hour in my backyard with a blanket and a slice of apple pie. It was all I hoped it would be. Did you know you can identify and track satellites visible to the naked eye? Evidently, there are around 500 satellites in low-Earth orbit, many of which can be easily spotted on a clear night, depending where you're standing, of course. We can bounce information off of those little things at a whim with our cell phones, you know? Ironically, we can't use all of our know-how to stop hating one another for no good reason. We're still driving our cars into crowds of innocent people, you know? We're the smartest idiots we can come up with.
Have you ever really thought about what you're looking at when you stare up into space? It's pretty ridiculous. I took a few astronomy classes in school, so maybe I've studied too much about why I should be astounded, but I still can't fathom the vastness of it all. It's one of those things that only becomes more difficult to understand the more you learn about it. I've always thought confusion is a good measure of understanding in any subject though...if you're not totally perplexed or at odds with yourself at some point, you're probably not learning anything. That said, let me establish my cognitive prowess by stating it plainly...I have no idea. I'm more unsure of everything than I've ever been.
There are dozens of stars you've looked at on any given night that aren't there anymore. While we wait for the speed of light to catch up with the history of the universe, we can go ahead and assume most things visible in tonight's sky have already swollen up red, exploded or imploded, and formed things that have already repeated that same chain of events, millions of years before the first humans came to be on our planet, no matter your beliefs or lack thereof. And if there are a few living specks, capable and willing to study the world we share with them, on a rock revolving around a fiery mass ten million years away from here, they can assume the same about our existence. We're everything and nothing at every moment. That's what I think, anyway...but then again, I'm pretty unsure about all of this.
