change

People say that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

But things do change – cities get bigger, cars change shape and run on less fuel, and handheld electrical devices seem to get smaller. Animals are going extinct at a crazy rate and land clearing increases exponentially.

So why do we think things stay the same?

Maybe it’s because the people tend to stay the same. React the same way, feel the same emotions, make the same mistakes, experience the same trials and tribulations from generation to generation.

Love, pride, greed, fun, laughter, loss and sadness… ever present and reappearing when we least expect it.

Speed of light - time travel??

Did you know that eventually many stars in lots of galaxies will just appear to disappear from the night sky? Of course they will still be there, but because our galaxy is speeding up in one direction and those in another, eventually light from receding galaxies will not actually reach earth due to the increasing speeds we are moving away from each other at. Cool huh?

 We can fix it by sending a telescope towards the receding stars at half light speed relative to us and send back the pictures it sees. it will still see the stars we cannot by essentially "standing still" in space as we fly one way and the opposite galaxies fly the other. :)

 

Population imbalance - population control

If we don't populate Australia adequately some other country with a big population will do it eventually. Read up on your history. It's always one big repetitive story. Big wins over little. Wars are only a distant memory in young people's imaginations, A conflict is only a catastrophe away -  a gender inbalance in one country of 40 million males could be such a trigger, or lack of water.

Global warming

It's the weirdest thing to have your nations leader tell me today the world is getting hotter when I battled 4 degree daytime temperatures today in gale force winds laced with stinging fine rain. Summer this year just gone was lucky to hit 35 degrees maybe once. When I was a kid in the sixties, temperatures hit 37 degrees every day for up to 6 weeks over summer with no rain. Now that was hot. Don't see that anymore. I have a feeling we might be facing global cooling. Beware the Atlantic conveyor!