Tuesday, March 19, 2013

I don't know where I found this but I pulled it from my notes:

"Right now, it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus, apparently trying to live up to its name, is orbiting the sun sideways, while Venus spins backwards. There are stars exploding, black holes gorging, galaxies colliding.

And here we sit, on a planet pock-marked by collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until finally the sun grows into a red giant and leaves nothing of the Earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, waiting to die as our heart muscle expires, our cells decide to grow forever, or a blood vessel
just pops, and sometimes in unnatural ways, too.

Here we sit, and some of us say, behold, look at the order of it all."

1 comment:

chowe said...

Mark! Uranus is currently transiting Taurus and explains(in my mind) the recent tonga eruption. More Earth changes to come! Love that you have a blog!!!
Wishing you well! Carol Howe from Alfred