Ever dream of traveling the stars like you were on some great big intergalactic cruise? Sure you have. We live in a solar system of 8 planets (9 if you want to count controversial little Pluto) and this solar system resides in the last quarter of the galaxy we inhabit so cutely named the milky way of which there are over hundreds of thousands of other solar systems within the milky way. Astrophysicists point out that light travels at 186,000 mph. The light we receive takes 8 minutes to reach us from the sun. If you were to stand on the edge of the milky way and shine a light to the other side , traveling at 186,000 mph it would still take you just over 100,000 years to get to the other side. Furthermore that is JUST this one little galaxy! Cosmologists have discovered so many other galaxies that in their own words, there are MORE galaxies than there are grains of sand in all the BEACHES and all the DESERTS on planet earth.
Let's just wrap our minds around that for a second. If we made a model of a small part of the cosmos by filling a glass full of sand, our little milky way would be just ONE of those grains of sand. Even more amazing, it takes light traveling at its seemingly fast 186,000 mph over 100,000 year just to cross one grain of sand. What can we glean from this information? To start, the speed of light is slow as hell! Who wants to wait a hundred thousand years to cross just one galaxy on this trip? I say nay, there has got to be a better way. The other thing we can learn is how time is a bit irrelevant. We have kept track of it 2010 years that we know of.
A lot has changed for us, but not for the big scheme of things. For all we know we are galactic infants in this big, cold, ever expanding, ever changing cosmos. Who is to say what creatures lived million of years ago on the other side of the galaxy? To postulate that perhaps these creatures survived and adapted to their changing environment and arrive and even surpass where we are today intelligence wise is not illogical. Perhaps given the right amount of time they even discovered a way to navigate through the cosmos and even visit other civilizations to maybe assist or colonize. But too surmise that we are the only creatures in this vast expanse would be a hard pill to swallow. I would have to say what a great waste of space if that was the case. I will blog about the evidence that we have that they are real and have been visiting us for quite some time. Please keep an open mind.
