Just a thought..

[Raffles]

Was watching something earlier tonight about the universe (OK don't yawn), but it made me think...

We are all here for a billionith of a second (relatively)... so let's us all make the most of it (without hurting others), because who knows what's next. Must admit, it does your head in when trying to make sense of it.

[thatguy]

Another thought.. the billionth of a second we are here, could improve the lives of so many others, cascading into an effect lasting so much longer. A kind act can be the catalyst for a life changing, a child being born, a person living when they would have died. Our lives are short, but can be worth so much when small kindnesses are given to others.

And on a lighter note, in relation to good old Raffles originl post, here's monty pythons take on it all.

[chykensa]

That's a very sobering though indeed, Raffles. I like staring at the night sky, often on cold frosty winter nights when the multitude of stars are at their viewing best.
I particularly like Orion, and the galaxies at the base of the belt fascinate me. Hundreds of light years away, and yet I can see them. Billions of stars visible only as a blur because of their distance from me, and yet just a pinprick in the vastness of the might sky. Makes you realise just how very small a part of the universe we all are.

[Raffles]

Nov 27, 2014 0:00:04 GMT chykensa said:

That's a very sobering though indeed, Raffles. I like staring at the night sky, often on cold frosty winter nights when the multitude of stars are at their viewing best.
I particularly like Orion, and the galaxies at the base of the belt fascinate me. Hundreds of light years away, and yet I can see them. Billions of stars visible only as a blur because of their distance from me, and yet just a pinprick in the vastness of the might sky. Makes you realise just how very small a part of the universe we all are.

Does make you think Andy... and the more I watch them and think about it... the more I 'just don't know'... but I guess we'll all find out sooner or later ???

[chykensa]

As long as I have my family and friends around me, and I am upright and breathing, I'll take my chances with the hereafter Raffles! I think it's the gradual approach of old age that makes us think about the more profound things in life, as it all gets a bit more proximate

[Raffles]

chykensa... tell me about it... without being frivolous... it is on my mind.

[Tom]

I love the way Bill Bryson explains human existence and the earth

“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It's a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.”
? Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

[igual]

Were all made of stardust

1. – The surface on Venus is hot enough to melt lead. The temperature on Venus can reach 462 degrees C (863.6 F), and it takes only 350 degrees C (662 F) to melt lead.

2. - 99% of all the mass in our solar system belongs to the sun.

3. - On a clear night, over 2000 stars are visible from Earth with the naked eye.

4. – The biggest asteroid ever recorded is named Ceres. It’s more than 965 kilometers long (600 miles).

5. - In the last 100 years, two asteroid big enough to destroy a medium sized city have hit Earth. Luckily they have both ended up in Siberia.

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6. - A cosmic year is the time it takes the Sun to rotate the center of our galaxy. This is approximately 225 million years.

7. - It’s believed that 20 new stars are born in our galaxy every year.

8. - Jupiters moon Europa is the most likely place to find water in our solar system. Astronomers believe there is a ocean of water underneath all the ice on the surface.

9. – Some neutron stars spin at a whopping speed of 600 rotation each second. That’s the same as a dentist drill.

10. - The Earth travels at an average speed of 107 200 km/h (66 623 mph) in orbit around the sun.

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11. – The sun produces more energy every minute than all the electricity we use on Earth in a whole year.

12. - The first photo taken of Earth from space, was photographed on the satellite “Vanguard 2? in 1959.

13. - Light from the moon takes about 1.3 seconds to reach Earth.

14. - The footprints on the moon left by the Apollo astronauts will not go away since there is no wind or water on the moon. They will stay there for at least 10 million years.

15. – Liquid water was found on a meteorite which crashed in Monahans, Texas on March 22. 1998

[VapingBad]

Off Topic: Python updated the lyrics of that song last with the aid of Brian Cox.

[Malibu]

Talking about the size of us I came across this the other day
pulptastic.com/22-pictures-will-make-question-everything-life-existance/?utm_content=buffer37b7b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer