This Simple Exercise will Make you fall asleep.. Did i say simple?.. This post isn't for everyone. in fact few will be interested. but the ONE! who is.... really will be into it. ( Contemplate A Distance)
When you look at the sky at night do you really ever wonder?. Really wonder! how far away our nearest star is? Our nearest star is " Our Sun" Yep Its just a regular old medium star that is 8.32 seconds away..yes you are seeing it 8 seconds ago. it is 93 million miles away..and light travels at 186,000 miles per "second".. why am i telling you this crazy stuff?... well. here is the exercise.
Try and contemplate that distance.. if you can. If you have done it in say 5 or 10 minutes.. you failed!
I like to do it in a straight line.. and somtimes to stars much further away.. Try and imagine how far it is to the end of your block.. then to your nearest store.. the nearest next town.. across the county.. across many county's..it will take awhile to cross your state.. Remember what your destination is! think of all the long hours traveling even at the speed of a jet across the US.don't lose sight of the target "The Sun" lets say you want to go to the star Betelgeuse in the Orion constalation.. your looking at 1500LY (light years) at this distance it would take you 1500 years traveling at 186,000 miles per second. here is the problem.. the human body could not take the ecelaration so it would take you humdreds of years to gain 186,000MPS and hundreds of years to decelerate.so you are going to wake up in the morning before you get get far at all.
If you are still counting sheep to sleep consider this.. if you are 30yrs old you are one Billion seconds old.. you can not count to a trillion in your life time or your childrens life.. and that the largest known used number in Astrophysics is a *Googleplex* you can not write it out. there are not enough sheets of paper on earth.
Did you know that in the year 216BC Archimedes had already counted (not literally)to 10 to the powers of one hundred million. 10(8x10)(86)the numeral 1 followed by eighty thousand trillion zeros when he estimated the number of grains of sand to fill the (Observable)universe.( he had no telescope and no idea how large the cosmos was) Oooph!.. and i failed 2+2. well.. if you have been reading this thus far.. you have a sleeping problem. see a doctor and get medication....ZZZZZ........... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..ZZZZ
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When you look at the sky at night do you really ever wonder?. Really wonder! how far away our nearest star is? Our nearest star is " Our Sun" Yep Its just a regular old medium star that is 8.32 seconds away..yes you are seeing it 8 seconds ago. it is 93 million miles away..and light travels at 186,000 miles per "second".. why am i telling you this crazy stuff?... well. here is the exercise.
Try and contemplate that distance.. if you can. If you have done it in say 5 or 10 minutes.. you failed!
I like to do it in a straight line.. and somtimes to stars much further away.. Try and imagine how far it is to the end of your block.. then to your nearest store.. the nearest next town.. across the county.. across many county's..it will take awhile to cross your state.. Remember what your destination is! think of all the long hours traveling even at the speed of a jet across the US.don't lose sight of the target "The Sun" lets say you want to go to the star Betelgeuse in the Orion constalation.. your looking at 1500LY (light years) at this distance it would take you 1500 years traveling at 186,000 miles per second. here is the problem.. the human body could not take the ecelaration so it would take you humdreds of years to gain 186,000MPS and hundreds of years to decelerate.so you are going to wake up in the morning before you get get far at all.
If you are still counting sheep to sleep consider this.. if you are 30yrs old you are one Billion seconds old.. you can not count to a trillion in your life time or your childrens life.. and that the largest known used number in Astrophysics is a *Googleplex* you can not write it out. there are not enough sheets of paper on earth.
Did you know that in the year 216BC Archimedes had already counted (not literally)to 10 to the powers of one hundred million. 10(8x10)(86)the numeral 1 followed by eighty thousand trillion zeros when he estimated the number of grains of sand to fill the (Observable)universe.( he had no telescope and no idea how large the cosmos was) Oooph!.. and i failed 2+2. well.. if you have been reading this thus far.. you have a sleeping problem. see a doctor and get medication....ZZZZZ........... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..ZZZZ
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzz
1 comment:
I loved reading your post and yes I do have a sleeping problem, the ending was so Wes!!!! loved it! AJB
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