The problem with Twitter is it’s not a blog. The problem with blogs are that they aren’t Twitter. I need an in-between. A blog is just too long for my simple thoughts and a 140 characters just isn’t enough.
It’s funny that the people who say “oh no! Cloning/genetically modified food/birth control/medicine/blah blah blah is not natural! We shouldn’t be doing these things to our bodies/food/blah blah blah!” are the same people who continue to pollute and don’t see a problem with it despite the fact that adding all these chemicals into the environment is not natural.
The greenhouse effect is basically there are these gases floating around in the atmosphere that make it warmer on Earth. This is necessary. If the greenhouse effect didn’t exist, we would be living (or rather not living) on a cold, cold planet.
Global warming is simple, really, and I don’t think I really understood how simple until now. I guess I never took the time to understand.
Humans are making more of of these greenhouse gases and they’re floating around in the atmosphere, thus making it even warmer. That’s “not natural”.
We’re going to die in a billion years anyway because the sun is slowly getting warmer and it will dry up all the water and suck up our atmosphere and Earth will be uninhabitable. That’s the first inevitability I’ve come across. No need to worry about the sun going supernova or becoming a black hole, because it never will. No need to worry about the sun becoming a red giant, which it will, and sucking up the Earth, because that happens after we get all hot and unlivable. No need to worry about being sucked into the black hole in the centre of the universe, because that happens much later. This is all assuming no stupid acts on the part of humans, but I’d say that’ll cut our outlook at least in half.
So yeah, this timeline here is pretty scary. The sun is 4.5 billion years old. Earth’s only got a billion years left. We’re nearing the end.
And if astronomy class has done one thing, it’s made me fail as a sci-fi writer. There is no where life “as we know it” can exist on any other planet or body in our solar system and the nearest star is much too far away from us to actually travel to, and even if we did, we don’t know what’s there. I would say yes, there is probably life out there somewhere, but I don’t think we’re ever going to find it. They might find us, but if what they say about the speed of light is true, that would be highly unlikely.
See now, I wasn’t planning on writing this much, but that’s what blogs make you do. I’m supposed to be studying for an astronomy test, damnit!