We have electricity and computers doing almost everything for us. We sit around and watch TV and DVDs, play video games, cruise the internet, go to parties and date without ever leaving our desk, We have food delivered to us, we harness enough water to quench the thirst of millions at a time. We have cloths that keep us warm in arctic temperatures, We travel over seas in hours and have the ability to see friends thousands of miles away every week if we so choose. We have heat when it is cold, we have air conditioning when it is hot, we have roofs to protect us from the elements.

What don’t we have… Happiness, Gratitude, Content.

We have fire available in a second with a match or lighter, we have sanitized water, we have refrigeration and freezers, we have ice when it is 110 degrees and hot water on demand.  We fly, we submerge, we drive, we float, WE ORBIT.

What we don’t have… Happiness, Gratitude, Content

We cure, we transplant, we preform miracles every day. we split atoms and have harnessed the sun, and hydrogen. We have even created black holes on earth. we see inside of inside, we look beyond the beyond. We can see the beginning of time, we created time. We measure, weigh, analyze, deduct, calculate, adapt.

What we don’t have… Intelligence

Stupid, ungrateful, spoiled, conceted, disrespectful humans. Nothing makes us happy.

We are just a spec on a spec and probably even smaller than that. To try to put this in perspective you will have to be good with zeros.

First, how fast is light? It is about 186,282 miles per second. The closest star to us is our Sun at 93 million miles away, roughly 8 light minutes. The next closest star, our best chance for life after earth is Alpha Centauri (actually 3 stars) just 4.27 light years away. or in other words 5.88 trillion miles multiplied by 4.27. That is a tiny, tiny bit over 25,000,000,000,000 miles away. How many years away is that at say 17,000 mph (how fast the space shuttle orbits the earth). It would take 1,407,588,235.3 years to reach the next “sun”. That is 1.407 Billion-ish.

So we have the distance and we can see the star from earth but can the star see the earth. Alpha Centauri A is the biggest and is about 10% more massive than our Sun, with a radius about 23% larger. How big is our sun? It would take 109 Earths to stretch across the Sun, and it would take over one million Earths to fill it. The circumference of the earth at the equator is about 24,901.55 miles. The Sun’s circumference is 2,713,406 miles and Alpha Centauri is 3,337,489.4 miles in circumference. We are talking millions of miles around versus 10’s of thousands of mile around. Still not convinced we are nothing.

With the Hubble telescope we have taken Deep Field space pictures and stared at what we believe as of now, the edge of the known universe. How far did we see…. after 10 days of pictures with exposures for 15-40 minutes per shot taken in ultraviolet, blue, red, and infrared light as well, showed us 1,500 galaxies in a space the size of a dime 75 ft away at various stages of evolution. This image shows us galaxies 10 billion years into the past, perhaps less than one billion years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang.

Once again, not even a spec of a spec… specs are galaxies. So what makes humans so special compared to everything else?

Think about it.

Yes that is right, we are simply an animal, a mammal to be more exact. What is it that makes us so different from lions, tiger and bears? Our greatest strength and greatest weakness… Our brains. Over 10-13,000 years the human species has developed and mutated into what we are now. At first we looked almost like an ape, slightly more erect, but still an ape. our brains were small and way of life was that of the animal kingdom… eat sleep and procreate.

As the centuries passed, weather changed, the humans changed. Our brains grew and most importantly our Frontal lobe grew. Why is this so important? Because this is the part of the brain responsible for deduction, short term memory, etc. Before this growth, like the animal kingdom, we just did what was instinctual. Now all of the sudden we could analyze, remember, communicate and create. This is our downfall.

As you will see throughout this site, our brain is our biggest problem. The fact that there has been such a long period of stable weather which has allowed us to evolve in an non-typical fashion. Stack our seemingly unique intellectual prowess on top and who needs an ice age, a colliding galaxy, a dwarf star dying, etc. We have no problems using our big brains to do natures work for her!