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July 20th 07, 07:42 AM
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Oh, and the planets don't /have/ meaning. They are small,
insignificant accidents in the universal scheme of things. You gotta problem wit dat? www.google.com 
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July 20th 07, 09:52 AM
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ps.com... Oh, and the planets don't /have/ meaning. They are small, insignificant accidents in the universal scheme of things. You gotta problem wit dat? www.google.com Yup. happy days and... starry starry nights! -- Tender is my love for thee Oh star so close at hand, Warming those so dear to me As we play on the sand... It's so easy to believe In all this beachin' fun, That some day you and we will be-- Altogether one. http://sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html You could almost hear the sssssss... http://tinyurl.com/2tjr2b Indelibly yours, Paine http://www.savethechildren.org/ http://www.painellsworth.net
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July 20th 07, 10:45 AM
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Painius wrote...
wrote in message ps.com... Oh, and the planets don't /have/ meaning. They are small, insignificant accidents in the universal scheme of things. You gotta problem wit dat? www.google.com Yup. What is it? happy days and... starry starry nights!
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July 21st 07, 05:21 AM
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"Tembang Sunda" wrote...
in message ... Painius wrote... wrote in message ps.com... Oh, and the planets don't /have/ meaning. They are small, insignificant accidents in the universal scheme of things. You gotta problem wit dat? www.google.com Yup. What is it? 'Lo Sunda -- Maybe i'm wrong, but i see the OP's words as having a deeper application. It's sorta like a phase some of us go through when we become interested in astronomy and commence our studies. One of the first "slaps in the face" you get is when you realize the enormous size of the Universe. You compare this with our little dust ball of a planet, Earth, and then even deeper, you compare it with the smallness of living things on Earth. The more you study at this point, the easier it becomes to see yourself as microscopic in comparison to everything in the sky. Then you might couple this with the harrowing thought that there is no "hard" evidence that there is life anywhere else in the Universe, nor in the Milky Way galaxy, no not even in our "tiny" Solar system. This can promote a deep feeling of being alone and meaningless. And if "we", if "life", is such a small, lonely thing, if life has no meaning, then how can anything *else* (e.g., planets) have any meaning at all as well? Here is where one can become interested in the fascinating areas where astronomy overlaps with other sciences such as physics, and particularly quantum mechanics. When you study the infinitesimally small right along together with the infinitely big, this tends to bring back some perspective. As far as size is concerned, living things find themselves right in the middle. There are the gigantic things, like stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and so too there are the tiny things like cells, atoms and the wee things atoms are made of. Check out the brief Powers-of-Ten javid... http://tinyurl.com/2lzoo Here's another vid about the "deep field"... http://tinyurl.com/y5rbu6 And one more to help with "perspective"... http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf As to what my problem is? I don't know. Maybe the OP's right and the planets have no meaning. Maybe *nothing* has any meaning. OR then... Maybe there *is* some meaning, some reason to it all. People are explorers. Maybe the planets are out there to give us something to explore, to discover things about? happy days and... starry starry nights! -- Tender is my love for thee Oh star so close at hand, Warming those so dear to me As we play on the sand... It's so easy to believe In all this beachin' fun, That some day you and we will be-- Altogether one. http://sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html You could almost hear the sssssss... http://tinyurl.com/2tjr2b Indelibly yours, Paine http://www.savethechildren.org/ http://www.painellsworth.net
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