According to NASA there are about 45 stars close to Earth within 17 Light-Years distance, in layman’s terms that means that the light from the furthest one of those 45 starts takes about 17 years to get to our planet.
Also according to NASA and other agencies studies, there are about 200 billion stars in our Galaxy.
To say that every time we look at the stars in our night sky we are living their past is an understatement: The light of some of the stars we are able to perceive is getting to us from bodies that died THOUSANDS and even MILLIONS of years go, their lights beacons of a once bright past that's no longer there.
Can’t think about this all without seeing how feeble and meaningless to the Universe the passage of our lives is. We can hope at best about 80 Earth years on average if we’re lucky, and how do we employ those Universal picoseconds? abusing this planet, abusing nature and then bicker among ourselves to the death on menial things; to top it off we do like we do with an arrogant belief that this all was made for us to dispose of.
I was just by looking at the night sky.
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"abusing this planet, abusing nature and then bicker among ourselves to the death on menial things; to top it off we do like we do with an arrogant belief that this all was made for us to dispose of."
ReplyDeletevery sad.