The peace of the morning is drifting through my open back door. There are two calls or morning pleas…one from a Bluejay trumpeting to its mates that peanuts have been laid on the back wall to pick through. I always chuckle…one isn’t enough and it tries to pack two into its beak only to drop it. The other sound, very mechanized is the siren (sireeeeen) call of a lonesome freight moving untold goods across the vastness of the United States.
Then I “zoom” out…
On a massive scale earth moves at unbelievable speed around our sun after blocking its light to the moon just last week for us to see a nifty eclipse. If that isn’t “vast” enough pull up images of what the James Webb Telescope is beginning to see. My gracious the galaxies and space gases as that telescope peers to the beginning - perhaps 13.7 billion years ago. What if it captures a telescope peering at us?
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Written by Steve Nelson
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