Universal Thoughts- Nibiru, is it true?
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Nibiru, is it true?
There have been many End-of-the-world theories throughout the ages, but nowadays, there’s a huge amount. I’ve seen a ton of websites on the internet with a million different theories about how the world could end, whether it’s by our own scientists accidentally creating a black hole, or a massive comet set to obliterate all species on earth. However, one of my favourite theories also happens to be one of the most far-fetched.
In previous blog posts, I’ve mention the Mayans and their doomsday prophecy, and how the world’s supposedly going to end in the winter of 2012. Well, I found a theory that ties into that whole thing, and it’s the Nibiru theory.
According the believers, Nibiru is a planet that circles our sun in an elliptical orbit, like a giant oval. Once every 3600 years, it comes crashing through our solar system like a giant demolition ball from hell. Nibiru’s gravitational force is enough to upset the orbits of all planets it passes on it’s way through.
Apparently, Nibiru’s next visit is in 2012, and will cause untold destruction on earth in the form of earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, and erupting volcanoes. ( And that’s if it passes us from a huge distance away.)
Personally, I don’t believe this theory. In fact, there is plentiful scientific evidence to dismiss it as ludicrous. For instance, if there really were a planet heading for us, we’d be able to see it, wouldn’t we? With all our telescopes and technology, even amateur astronomists would see something.
However, the Nibiru believers have answers for this, such as the planet being too dark to see, or it being only visible from the North Pole. Some say it’s a government cover-up, hiding Nibiru from view to stop us panicking.
As I’ve said, I don’t believe it, but I still think it’s interesting. Imagine what life would be like if we all knew we’d die in 3 years? Also, there’s supposed to be an alien civilization on Nibiru, and their coming back to take over Earth again. We’d all be slaves.
What a ridiculous thought. I’d better go, I need to bring Master Ziggolnotrot Manynose his tea and crumpets..
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October 6, 2008
Universal Thoughts- Rambling, the Unknown, and Religion.
9:45 am | 4 Comments » |Rambling, the Unknown, and Religion.
All right, I know I haven’t posted any new blog updates in a long while. Life has got in the way, and my own inability to commit to anything for more than a short while has got in the way too.
Writing this blog, and I’m being truthful here, is not high up on my mental to-do list. The whole reason I started this blog is because of my desire to discuss interesting science stuff, but recently, I’ve been busy with school, and I’ve been pursuing other interests.
That doesn’t mean that I find writing this blog to be boring, or a hassle. I absolutely love reading about new technology, space, scientific breakthroughs, and the like, and I like to share it with other people.
When I read something about Genetic Modification, or robots, or new planets discovered etc., it makes me think just how far we as a species have come, and how far we may go. Humanity is a complex society and we as people are even more complex. Our future is uncertain, so constant research is going into new forms of protection, things to help us, machines to make our life easier, and ways of improving humanity as a whole.
I believe that everyone has an underlying fear of the unknown. Some people are afraid of the dark, because they can’t see what’s happening, the area around them unknown. People get nervous and stressful when starting a new job, because it’s something new, different, and unknown. People are afraid of dying, because all the brain can grasp is life. Death is completely foreign, unimaginable, and unknown. This fear of the unknown grips everyone at some point.
The same applies to the human race as a whole. Some people turn to science, to make things to prepare for the unknown, to break down every particle until we know every thing about everything it’s made of, to create spaceships to explore the vast reaches of the unknown universe, so we know what’s there, so we can be reassured.
Most people turn to religion. The thought of a god, a guiding deity, is comforting. To know that you don’t have to worry, because you’re always being watched over, protected, is something that people treasure.
I don’t want to spark off a religious debate here, but personally, I do not believe in God. My world is run by science, the reassurance that everything has a scientific answer, that everything can be explained. I’ve got to admit it’s kind of a lonely way to live.
In the past, everyone believed that God created all, and in a very short timespan. Nowadays, most people believe that we evolved from apes. Sometimes I think that maybe, sometime in the distant future, when everything has been analysed, discovered, broken down, and studied, that people will lose their faith. The human desire to know the unknown could be the death of religion.
I read a survey recently done in Britain and the results for “Do you believe in God?” was 38%. A country of millions upon millions of people from all over the world and only 38% of them believe in God. The website could be wrong, but even so, I find that upsetting.
I, a non-religious person, find that upsetting.
In the past, everyone believed in God. There were maybe only a few people who didn’t, and they were hanged for it. Nowadays, as science digs into everything, providing an answer for all mysteries, less and less people believe in God.
I believe that someone once said that the more they personally discover about the complexity of everything, the molecules that make us, and the vastness of the universe, the more that they personally believe in God.
I find that admirable, and I understand their thinking.
Everything that exists is amazing in my mind. Sunsets, people, nature, space, stars, air, wind, clouds, computers, dirt, trash, tables, EVERYTHING. Everything we know is the result of billions of specialised molecules, billions of minuscule chemical reactions and routines, everything moving in perfect harmony.
The world and everything we know is incredible, and yet we aren’t satisfied with that. We have a habit of trying to find out how everything works, to explore everywhere, to break down the world into individual molecules instead of the fantastic things they create. We have a need to discover the unknown.
What good will come of it? That’s the problem, nobody really knows. It’s just another thing to add to the list of the unknown.
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September 3, 2008
Universal Thoughts- The Universe
9:33 am | 2 Comments » |The Universe
Aaah, The universe! An unimaginably astronomically gigantic group of space and molecules. Scientists theorise that if you looked upon the universe from a distance, it would appear to be a large bubble with strange globs of stationary gas clouds inside it.
Beyond this bubble, would perhaps be other universes.
If you looked closer at the clouds of what looked like gas, you would see that they are actually gigantic groups of clusters of galaxies. Billions of galaxies.
If you look closer and closer, you’d be able to see the galaxies as individual dots instead of a cloud of gas. Look closer at one of these dots, and it will look like a ball of light, with yet more clouds of gas floating around it. In fact, the middle of the galaxy would look like the sun.
Now, let’s zoom in on one of the swirling clouds. These clouds are actually huge clusters of stars. Most stars are immensely huge. The smallest stars are many times the size of Earth, and our own star is large enough to fit a million Earth’s inside of it, if it was hollow.
Next to our star is huge chunks of rock and gas, rotating around it in orbits. The planets in our solar system are varied, but only one has humans living on it.
Everyone knows what the Earth looks like. A huge, beautiful blue sphere, with white clouds making their way across it. Dotted around in the vast blue sea are large sections of green and brown. The land we live on.
Look closer at one of the countries, and you’d see clusters of light, looking like stars in the galaxy. These are the lights from one of our many cities.
Look closer, and you see us, humans, doing our daily jobs, and worrying about things like global warming, the energy crisis, and the battling in the middle-east.
We’re incredibly small. If you look up to the night sky, you’ll see the stars, and empty blackness. If someone out there were looking back, they’d see the same thing.
Makes you wonder if someone on some obscure alien planet in another galaxy is wondering if there is life out there, just as many of us wonder.
In the vastness of space, our global problems don’t really matter. To the universe in general, we’re just a hunk of rock flying around a middle-aged star in a small galaxy somewhere. As insignificant as the atoms that make up a single dust particle.
I guess that’s why I hope we discover aliens! At least we’ll have some company.
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August 14, 2008
Universal Thoughts- It’s a Conspiracy
6:43 am | No Comments » |IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!
In my last post, My Mom, Carolyn Ekins, left a comment about conspiracy theories. She mentioned the rather famous conspiracy theory of the Apollo moon landings being a hoax. I personally don’t believe this theory, but they do have some interesting evidence.
If you look at the photos from the moon landings, taken by the Astronauts, in many of them you see strange anomalies, that many believe are a sign that the moon landings were faked. For instance, in many of the pictures, if you take a look at the shadows cast by the numerous rocks littering the surface of the moon, you see that some shadows are going one way, and others are going a different way.
This shows that there must have been multiple light sources coming from different directions, but the only light source that was supposed to be on the moon was the sun. Things like this, and other so called “mistakes” make people believe in this theory. Could these differentiating shadows be caused by studio lights? Were the moon landings really faked?
As I have said before, I firmly believe that the landings were real, and that it’s one of our great achievements.
I’ve read some really wacky conspiracy theories, which make me think that some people must have a lot of time on their hands. I once visited a web-site of people that firmly believe Canada planned the 9/11 attacks. They also believe that the moon doesn’t exist, that it’s just some kind of projection a few miles up in the sky, some kind of government joke. Look these theories up on the internet if you don’t believe me!
My opinion, they must be either extremely bored, extremely paranoid, extremely crazy, or all three.
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning….
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August 6, 2008
To boldly go where we’ve gone before!
9:31 am | 1 Comment » |
Hey, Everyone. I haven’t written a blog post for a while, so here I am.
Anyway, Guess what? Humanity’s going back to the moon again! Yeah, that’s right, in 2020. Now, personally, I find this incredibly exciting, but at the same time, incredibly stupid. Just think, with all the problems our world has as a whole, America is going to spend millions and millions of dollars to land on an empty, atmosphere lacking hunk of space rock that we’ve visited before anyway.
I don’t know all the details of this new mission to the moon (seeing as it’s a more than a decade until lift-off.) but I do know that it’s going to be astronomically expensive. The new Moon-Lander will be able to support 4 people for a week on the moon, giving them enough time to build some kind of device, which happens to be what they’re going to do.
A puzzling factor is WHY has this taken so long? This mission will begin over 50 years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps on the moon. Extremely odd if you ask me.
I don’t blame them though. Going to the moon is ultra-expensive and seemingly pointless, but who knows? Maybe by the end of this century we’ll have colonies and machines all over the moon, and maybe even Mars. I live in hope, because it will be a science-fiction maniac’s dream.
That’s me by the way…..
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July 18, 2008
Universal Thoughts- Genetic Modification
6:21 am | No Comments » |Genetic Modification
Imagine what the world would be like if we were born perfect… Imagine if we were all born with an IQ of 250, with beautiful and handsome faces, and a great sense of humour… You just imagined a future possibility.
It’s already been proven that we can modify the genetic code of embryos, even human ones. Of course, the embryos are all destroyed when they’re a few days old, otherwise we’d have a bunch of mutant humans around. The first Genetically Modified human embryo was altered to make the skin become green.
If it ever became legal to allow a genetically modified embryo to live, imagine the possibilities. Rich people would pay for their babies to be smart, and good looking. Some mad scientist would create a race of mutant vampire humans with wings, or perhaps it would never come into being.
If genetic modification became an everyday thing, perhaps the world would be split into “The Perfect Race” and “The Un-modified”. If there were perfect humans, us normal folk would be vastly inferior and unworthy.
You never know what might happen, but if all this does come into being, I’ve got dibs on the wings!
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July 6, 2008
Human Intelligence?
10:08 am | No Comments » |Throughout humanity’s past, Wars have been fought endlessly. Millions upon Millions of people have died, fighting for causes the don’t truly understand. In the carnage of war, as well as soldiers, many innocent people perish, people who played no part in the battle. Even now, with much bigger problems around such as climate change, and the global oil supply depleting rapidly, countries across the world still battle with each other.
Why does the human race always try to solve problems with violence? Why can’t we all just be like Ghandi, minus the whole fasting thing? ( can’t live without Doritos! )
Humanity has really made a mess of itself. We have a tendency to procrastinate, or leave the task for someone else to do. Take the American government for example. They completely put-off doing anything drastic against global warming, they put huge amounts of funding into defence, so they can make more weapons of mass destruction, and they’ve put off building any large solar energy plants, to reduce oil dependence.
Looks like we have some work to do.
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June 30, 2008
Technology – What would we do without it?
2:29 pm | No Comments » |Right now, in the 21st Century, technology rules us. Not the “bow down to me, pitiful worm!” kind of ruling, but more to the fact that we depend on it so much.
We use technology for everything. We have computers for entertainment, information, etc. We have cell phones to keep in touch with each other. We have microwave ovens, light bulbs, vehicles, television. Almost everything we own is technology, or built from technology. The chairs we sit in, the houses we live in, they’re all built from machines, factories, and other technologies.
Now, taking that into account, just imagine what would happen if that was all taken away. Imagine if we no longer had technology, and went back to the stone age. First off, we’d need to make a home for ourselves, and hunt for some food. Time to get out your trusty hunting rifle, but wait! Hunting rifles are technology, and all that disappeared!
An interesting weapon called EMP ( Electromagnetic Pulse) is a weapon specially designed to knock out all electrical appliances and machines in the blast radius. It’s an amazing tactical weapon, even though it’s still experimental. If you dropped a big enough EMP in the middle of New York City, the results would be catastrophic. No-one would get hurt by the weapon, better yet, no-one would even see it go off, but every light, computer, car, and machine in New York would get fried. That would cause cars to skid out of control and crash into each other all over the city. It would take weeks for the city to recover.
Humanity would be pretty hopeless without it’s machines.
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June 24, 2008
Universal Thoughts – Global Warming
9:52 pm | 4 Comments » |Global Warming
Al Gore had the right idea. An inconvenient truth if I ever saw one.
If you think Global Warming is something to be taken lightly, you’ve been living under a rock, on the dark side of the moon. While it is true that in our lifetime we won’t burn to death, or choke on large clouds of C02, future generations may.
Just think, if climate change goes wild, then people in the not too distant future will live on continents that are a completely different shape. All the water from melting ice caps would reshape our world. Say goodbye to New York, farewell to London, and you’d better buy a boat, because most of Nova Scotia will be underwater.
One of my favourite movies is “Waterworld”, a 90’s movie directed by Kevin Reynolds, and starring Kevin Costner. The movie takes place in the future, the year unspecified, where the entire planet is covered in water because of the melting ice. The people of Waterworld live on boats, and floating cities called Atolls.
Now, it’s scientifically proven that we don’t have near enough ice on the planet to cover the world, so don’t start buying scuba gear just yet. While this is a relief, it doesn’t really lessen the threat to humanity’s existence.
A scary scenario for the future is “The Runaway Greenhouse Effect”. Many scientist’s believe that if our C02 emissions aren’t lessened, that irreversible and catastrophic changes will happen, and happen fast. The basic idea of The Runaway Greenhouse Effect is that as our atmosphere gets thicker with the gas emissions, and the planet gets warmer, the ice starts to melt. This melting ice releases tonnes of trapped gasses into the air, further increasing the dense atmosphere, making it warmer. Now we live on a hot planet with a lot of seawater. Then, as it gets hotter, the water starts to evaporate, filling our atmosphere with water vapour, which further increases the temperature. Now we live on a swelteringly hot planet with little water, and a foggy atmosphere. Of course, it just keeps going, getting hotter and hotter, the air getting smokier, and the water getting scarcer.
This is a frightening idea, but it’s also one supported by a lot of evidence. Take a look at our neighbouring planet, Venus. Venus has an atmosphere many times as dense as the Earth, resulting in temperatures so high that lead and tin would melt in it’s atmosphere. Could our planet be turning into another Venus? Was there a civilisation on Venus millions of years ago that made the same mistakes we’re making?
I sure hope global warming doesn’t get this bad. My advice, stock up on sunscreen and sit in the freezer.
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June 19, 2008
Universal Thoughts- The Legend of Kukulkan
12:07 pm | No Comments » |The legend of Kukulkan
In my last post, I mentioned the possibility of another civilisation somewhere out there in deep space. It has always been my belief that we share our galaxy with another human-like race on another Earth-like planet. Just imagine how it would change us all if we did indeed make contact with such a civilisation. They could be in the stone-age, or they could be hundreds of years ahead of us technology-wise. They could even be in our age right now. That kind of possibility really fascinates me.
Many months ago, I read something called the “Ancient Astronauts Theory” on the internet. This theory states that it’s possible an alien race, or multiple alien races, visited and lived on our planet during ancient times. This theory ties into the whole “Aliens built the pyramids” thing, but that I don’t believe. Now, I’m not saying that I actually believe there was aliens on our planet, but the evidence shows that something fishy was going on back then. Possibly an entire sub-race of humans were living in harmony with mankind.
In my last post, I also mentioned the ancient Mayans. Originally, the Mayans were a primitive, semi-nomadic, jungle dwelling society, who had a decent knowledge of farming, But that changed. Sometime around 2500 BC, He came. He was a tall, Caucasian man with a flowing white beard, and an elongated cranium. According to legend, he arrived by sea along the Gulf of Mexico to impart great wisdom on the natives. This happened a long time before the first European set foot in America, so these natives had never seen a white man before. Soon afterwards, the native Mesoamericans had outstanding knowledge in mathematics, astrology and architecture. Almost overnight, these simple jungle-dwelling farmers were suddenly building complex structures and extensive ceremonial centres. They even incorporated advanced mathematics and engineering skills to erect pyramids. They called this great leader “Kukulkan”.
What really gets me is that many ancient civilisations in that era also described a great teacher matching the descriptions of Kukulkan. Were these bearded, long-headed, 7-foot tall men an alien race? If they were just regular humans, how were they born with a head twice as big as a regular person’s head?
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