Starcrazzy
23-01-2006, 12:09 AM
Hi all,
Im sure that most of us have by now looked up and wonderd.Gazzed in awe at the sheer vastness of the universe(well, the little bit of it that we can see).Stared, transfixed to the eyepiece as a brilliant globular cluster resolves into a city of stars.Or at a smudgey galaxy, millions of light years away but every bit as real as our own backyard.And im sure that by now most of us have read the facts, the numbers, the sheer amount of "stuff" that is out there..Millions upon millions of stars per galaxy, and millions upon millions of galaxy's absolutly litter the night sky..And any one of those tiny specs of light that we all see could be home to civillisations..Mabye countless numbers of them also are scatterd across the sky..If life in an intellifgent form only exist's in a tiny , tiny fraction of all the solar systems that must be out there, then there still must be millions of other civillisations sharing the same universe..And i recently got to thinking.What would all these cultures be doing??for hobby's i mean.What would an intelligent little green man do in his, or her(or both) spare time..And i came to conclusion that, no matter what sort of gods they created, or culture they nurtured, or body form they took on,or amount of eyeballs they evolved or apposeable thumbs..No matter what other strange technology's they invented or air they breathed, if they indeed even breath air..I mean, we as humans have nurtured such things as music, and art, and sport and even war.Tjhere is no reason to summise that an alien culture would come up with any of these things.No matter what else, im sure...im possative,, that they too would look up at the night sky(providing they have a night)and say,"i wonder"..I wonder what else is out there..And im sure they would devote any form of technology that they concoct into looking at the stars..To studying the smudges and the fuzzies, just like you and me..so ive come to the conclusion that ours truely is, the universal hobby..What do you guys reckon??
Im sure that most of us have by now looked up and wonderd.Gazzed in awe at the sheer vastness of the universe(well, the little bit of it that we can see).Stared, transfixed to the eyepiece as a brilliant globular cluster resolves into a city of stars.Or at a smudgey galaxy, millions of light years away but every bit as real as our own backyard.And im sure that by now most of us have read the facts, the numbers, the sheer amount of "stuff" that is out there..Millions upon millions of stars per galaxy, and millions upon millions of galaxy's absolutly litter the night sky..And any one of those tiny specs of light that we all see could be home to civillisations..Mabye countless numbers of them also are scatterd across the sky..If life in an intellifgent form only exist's in a tiny , tiny fraction of all the solar systems that must be out there, then there still must be millions of other civillisations sharing the same universe..And i recently got to thinking.What would all these cultures be doing??for hobby's i mean.What would an intelligent little green man do in his, or her(or both) spare time..And i came to conclusion that, no matter what sort of gods they created, or culture they nurtured, or body form they took on,or amount of eyeballs they evolved or apposeable thumbs..No matter what other strange technology's they invented or air they breathed, if they indeed even breath air..I mean, we as humans have nurtured such things as music, and art, and sport and even war.Tjhere is no reason to summise that an alien culture would come up with any of these things.No matter what else, im sure...im possative,, that they too would look up at the night sky(providing they have a night)and say,"i wonder"..I wonder what else is out there..And im sure they would devote any form of technology that they concoct into looking at the stars..To studying the smudges and the fuzzies, just like you and me..so ive come to the conclusion that ours truely is, the universal hobby..What do you guys reckon??