Just a spec, a pinprick on the sky in the overall scheme of things
Friday, February 26, 2016
I Like Spiders
Click the picture to go the APOD site and read about this monster called the Tarantula Nebula. Once there, click again and again to get a large image to explore. 1000 Light years wide...... That is 1000 * 5.8 Trillion miles wide and not a democrat or moslem POS in sight I can assure you.
Just a spec, a pinprick on the sky in the overall scheme of things
Just a spec, a pinprick on the sky in the overall scheme of things
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You like spiders, huh Kid? Just a hunch, but try SPY and QQQ; P/E ratios currently suggest that a bottom is upon us, both in natural resources and retail, and that stocks are cheap as hell as we speak. Load up on these index ETF's. Bet the farm on them. You can't go wrong. And I am still hanging onto my PHOT, it's off the bottom now and making a comeback, you'll see.
ReplyDeleteYou could be right Fredd. I read some smart guys who feel the bull market has a long way to go, not withstanding pullbacks.
DeleteWait! What...? The cosmos are filled with SUV smoke? I knew iT!
ReplyDeleteDaBlade, maybe that why "scientists" have recently concluded all alien civilizations are now all dead form climate change. Yea, seriously.
DeleteO, Star of Wonder, Star of LIght,
ReplyDeleteStar of Royal Beauty bright,
Westward leading;, still processing
Guide us with they Perfect Light ...
I see no "tarantula" there only a renewed sense of Awe and the Great Mystery that is Reality. I realize how very small am I and all those people and things that I have ever loved and considered important –– even J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, who felt and understood the Universality and Wonder in all parts of the Cosmos and for those with ears to hear their profound understanding –– and humility –– in the music they composed. They too are small in comparison to the Cosmos, but one of the things that set them apart and made them great is that they KNEW it, and reflected their understanding in the inexhaustible treasure of music they gave us.
Someday, mankind may come to its senses and realize that ALL of us are connected as INTEGRAL PARTS of the vast, organic thing that is Cosmos. Our importance, however, could only hope to be understood in direct proportion to our humility.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise ye the Heavenly Host.
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Dr. Lewis Thomas, the former Director of New York City's Sloane-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research was a great oncologist, biologist, man of keen insight, poet and prize-winning essayist. In the depths of his great research he formulated the theory from all he had observed in his long career about the inner-workings of cellular formation and development that the Cosmos is in truth held together and made to function by a force he described as "something very like AFFECTION!"
Since we are able to see such a minuscule portion of all that IS with our human eyes, and comprehend even less with our hopelessly flawed perception of materiality, I believe it only stands to reason that there is one hell of a lot more going on that has direct bearing on our lives than we are able to imagine even in our wildest hopes and dreams.
And that is why I persist in my belief in God, despite all the nattering self-important intellectuals who demand that we "WAKE UP" and accept THEIR arid, cynical, iconoclastic, utterly vain, PAROCHIAL, two-dimensional views of Something so Vast, so Complex, yet really so SIMPLE, it should make us fall to our knees, beg forgiveness for our arrogance, and begin to replace out cocksure notions with genuine CURIOSITY.
FT, Man come to their senses? Ah... no.
DeleteSure, why not? –– with more good influences such as those you provide, Kid. :-)
DeleteGotta keep hope alive, ya know,
The name Tarantula is a bit off-putting for this wonderful nebula. I'm not fond of encounters of the arachnid kind... even in space.
ReplyDeleteI put spiders outside when I find them in the house Cube. I do squish the ones that look like they could hurt a cat.
DeleteThey're mostly the size of cats here in Florida ;)
DeleteI'm with CUBE! :-)
ReplyDeleteScairdy Cat :)
DeleteYou and Z don't live in Tampa, 'cause honey we get some big spiders and roaches here and they have attitude. It's one good reason to get a carry permit.
DeleteCube, Florida?, Yea, I've heard the cockroaches are capable of stealing cars down there.
DeleteKid: The spiders and roaches down here are the size of Buicks, and not the new age Buicks which look like Volkswagon beetles. I'm talking about the Buicks when our grandparents were young. And they're aggressive too, they don't run away. I saw a Huntsman in my garage and I went after it with a laundry basket and this thing still charged me.
DeleteCube. Wow.
DeleteThat's gonna take a large shoe to squash.
ReplyDeleteMy little 7 1/2 shoes aren't anywhere near the bug squishing world athletes that my husband's size 14 shoes are.
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