Lost
I've been in a wandering state today.
I'm noticing things around me.
I'm thinking about space from new perspectives.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there is a chapter dealing with a machine made from angel-food cake that shows you exactly how small you are in the universe. The whole universe.
From the day I read that, I've been trying my relative size to the universe without the help of that machine.
The machine makes people go insane. They go crazy once they realize just how small they actually are. How useless and meaningless.
Maybe I'll go crazy.
Either way, these perspetive exercises that I do in my head feel like small versions of the real experience.
Think about it: when you're inside a building, do you ever think about where you are relative to the immediate surroundings of the building? Or when you're directly outside of the building, do you ever think about where are you relative to the inside of the building?
I don't know if everyone already does this exercise. Maybe I was left out until now. I doubt it. It's a hard task to correctly accomplish, and when it has been accomplished, one cannot be sure if it has actually been done correctly.
No one can be in two places at once. It's really a limitation on a lot of life's aspects. Too bad.
I'm probably upside-down right now, or at any rate sideways, relative to the earth. I'm not falling over because of gravity. It really has nothing to do with up or down. Just distance relative to the core of whatever is being measured. We have this image of "up" as it occurs in the solar system that is really only helpful when we're mapping. Otherwise, it's pretty useless. Do we realize that we could look at a picture taken from what we assume is "above" the solar system, and it would look nearly identical to one taken from "beneath" the solar system? I mean, Antarctica would be facing us from "beneath...." And there you go. See how Earch-centric I am? Maybe I should figure out where Olympus Mons is and speak from the Martian perspective.... Or maybe the giant storm on Jupiter (though I'm fairly sure that moves, as it weather). It has a name, too, but I'm too Earth-centric for that.
Questions:
How small am I?
How many perspectives are there?
If everyone in the world got in parallel lines around a meridian and held hands, what would that look like from space?
I'm noticing things around me.
I'm thinking about space from new perspectives.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there is a chapter dealing with a machine made from angel-food cake that shows you exactly how small you are in the universe. The whole universe.
From the day I read that, I've been trying my relative size to the universe without the help of that machine.
The machine makes people go insane. They go crazy once they realize just how small they actually are. How useless and meaningless.
Maybe I'll go crazy.
Either way, these perspetive exercises that I do in my head feel like small versions of the real experience.
Think about it: when you're inside a building, do you ever think about where you are relative to the immediate surroundings of the building? Or when you're directly outside of the building, do you ever think about where are you relative to the inside of the building?
I don't know if everyone already does this exercise. Maybe I was left out until now. I doubt it. It's a hard task to correctly accomplish, and when it has been accomplished, one cannot be sure if it has actually been done correctly.
No one can be in two places at once. It's really a limitation on a lot of life's aspects. Too bad.
I'm probably upside-down right now, or at any rate sideways, relative to the earth. I'm not falling over because of gravity. It really has nothing to do with up or down. Just distance relative to the core of whatever is being measured. We have this image of "up" as it occurs in the solar system that is really only helpful when we're mapping. Otherwise, it's pretty useless. Do we realize that we could look at a picture taken from what we assume is "above" the solar system, and it would look nearly identical to one taken from "beneath" the solar system? I mean, Antarctica would be facing us from "beneath...." And there you go. See how Earch-centric I am? Maybe I should figure out where Olympus Mons is and speak from the Martian perspective.... Or maybe the giant storm on Jupiter (though I'm fairly sure that moves, as it weather). It has a name, too, but I'm too Earth-centric for that.
Questions:
How small am I?
How many perspectives are there?
If everyone in the world got in parallel lines around a meridian and held hands, what would that look like from space?