A little perspective on things, food for thought

**jamous** · 03-19-2008 07:24 AM

I was outside just now, peeing, and I was looking at the moon, thinking how incredible it is that as long as man has ever been witness to things, that friend of the earth and of man, that buddy we call the moon that is a big brilliant ball of rock in the sky, is held in by our mother earth's gravity and is constantly whipping around the earth, and in your everyman's day it's a pale white silhouette in the pale blue sky in the back of our minds.

At that moment, as I was peeing, that was my fortunate perspective on us and on the globe and on our place in the cosmos. And that wonderfully refreshing feeling of externalizing my focus onto the moon was carried again further out into space when I realized the sun was underneath me, underneath the ground I was peeing on at that very moment, that it rose from the east behind me and sank into the west before me and was now underneath me. It occurred to me then that of course the sun never rose or fell or moved around the earth at all, that we actually move around the sun, which is at some incomprehensible distance away from us that we double yearly. Every one of us, me and you and everybody you have and haven't met whips around the sun over and over again every year, covering more distance than we have all walked in our entire lives all put together, our globe around the sun like an electron zooming infinitely quickly around the nucleus of an atom. And who knows how fast our whole solar system is traveling, our universe?

Yet to you and me, it all goes around us. And relatively speaking, the cosmos rotate around the earth. Why not?

**maxihaus** · 03-19-2008 04:42 PM

I love how you keep mentioning the fact "..and while I was peeing". I believe this is a totally useless topic, but I had a similiar question run through my mind yesterday.

I thought, since dinosaurs died of the Ice Age and we're gonna die from Global Warming, are there gonna be dinosaurs again after us on earth? and then other humans? and the same cycle on and on again?

It's funny how weird questions run through our heads when we're bored.