The medieval lord doesn’t get to see New York. He’s asking about things he knows well: troops, castles, woodland, farmland. Towns and cities are small and less significant remember? All societies are agrarian! He doesn’t get to see what we want to show him, he’s asking us questions and we’re answering and wishing we could say ‘yes but you should be asking about our arsenal of nuclear submarines that fire 12 missiles each with 8 warheads that can incinerate an entire army anywhere in the world within 30 minutes’
We’re looking at stars, the things we know well. Stars, black holes, planets and dust are 5% of the universe. The entire visible universe is not huge nor does it have much energy, it is dwarfed by the dark stuff we don’t understand.
The entire universe is being torn apart by two mysterious forces that we cannot identify! We are staring at something enormously powerful. If we can’t identify life in the 5% we understand well, life is very likely in the other 95%.
The medieval lord doesn’t get to see New York. He’s asking about things he knows well: troops, castles, woodland, farmland. Towns and cities are small and less significant remember? All societies are agrarian! He doesn’t get to see what we want to show him, he’s asking us questions and we’re answering and wishing we could say ‘yes but you should be asking about our arsenal of nuclear submarines that fire 12 missiles each with 8 warheads that can incinerate an entire army anywhere in the world within 30 minutes’
We’re looking at stars, the things we know well. Stars, black holes, planets and dust are 5% of the universe. The entire visible universe is not huge nor does it have much energy, it is dwarfed by the dark stuff we don’t understand.
The entire universe is being torn apart by two mysterious forces that we cannot identify! We are staring at something enormously powerful. If we can’t identify life in the 5% we understand well, life is very likely in the other 95%.