Thursday, 2 February 2006

Low 2/4: Planet

The people you can see walking down the street are not looking up into the sky and wondering who is out there - instead, they mindlessly watch people with the intelligence of cockroaches on empty-content TV. You can travel 13,700,000,000 Light Years in all directions*, yet we (and by we, I mean Americans) haven't been to the Moon since December 1972. It's only 3 Light Seconds away (384,400 km on average). What was done in the meantime? We built Concorde. Then we scrapped Concorde. Humanity moves forwards. Humanity moves backwards. Politicians build more bridges.

Like a can of sugar-water Coke®, humans arrived and unscrewed the cap on the equilibrium. At this moment , I would truly welcome this species' extinction - the only tragedy would be if the means resulted in the wipeout of the less destructive species.

*The distance to the edge of observable space. Anything beyond that is irrelevant to us
Based on barely-legible depressed rants written in the middle of the night on 19/01/06

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