This Can't Be Happening Again

Dave Mossburg stopped over this afternoon to tell me we are going to watch a sunset tomorrow evening and to bring your own dinner. I still have a venison steak or two left. That should be good. Then he said something about not liking Ford trucks because 9 out of 10 sold in Phoenix had bent frames. Amazingly the rail transport company tied them down too tight and bent all the frames. He found out from his brother who has a friend who worked in a garage who went to buy a new Ford and noticed the wheels didn't line up front to rear. So, I guess that's how 9 out of 10 Ford truck frames got bent and drive down the road crooked. I asked him why they didn't fix them. He doesn't know. I suppose Ford just figured most folks won't mind buying a new truck with a bent frame. Next time you're behind a 73-79 4 wheel drive Chevy pickup, Blazer or Suburban look at the offset on the front wheels on them, too.They are made that way so the rear doesn't track in the same line. Go figure.
But there's more. Dave informed me the other day (for about the last time I hope) that he dislikes George Bush more than he hates Fords. He said he watched a movie a few years ago by some guy named Micheal Moore and it had the whole truth about George Bush. I  must've missed that one. But it's all good now. Dave is still convinced Hollywood did the recordings of the back side of the moon. Us humans couldn't figure out how to open a pickle jar let alone make one if we hadn't all climbed out of caves at the same time. So figuring how the physical world always works the same way we might be better off if the ancients had not figured out that the stars are too far away to hit with a sling shot. I'd like to take a tennis racket into space and see how far I can hit a golf ball.  Evidently Dave believes we can't make it past the ozone so I might not get that wish, but how did they get all those satellites up there anyway?


Herbert Spencer is quoted saying:

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

I told Dave to do his own research the other day. I already do my own. He didn't like it because he doesn't like to read almost as much as he dislikes Fords. So he watches NBC and then tells me how bad the world is because of George Bush and all the bent Ford truck frames running around all over the place. And one more thing - Halliburton is owned by the devil's ugly step sister.

Please, not again.

Our Own Universe

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

Could You Believe Otherwise?

I find it more difficult to believe that we on Earth are the only thing living in a universe that probably contains places much better and much worse than where we are right now. It's really not a problem though because at this time we are so limited to our space exploration that it has taken us fifty years to even consider putting a living being in a ship to send him or her to the next planet out from us. If ever there was something in this world that made me think otherwise I would fold up my tent and head for the hills.


I am always faintly aware that every particle of this world is connected to all of the rest and they are connected to all the rest and so on until I resemble the pin head in a hole of donut that is the size of a Buick LeSabre on the Autobahn in country the size of Nebraska on a planet the size of our solar system in a galaxy far, far away. I learned last night that I am aware too, of a consciousness that maybe this all started yesterday and that tomorrow it will come to an end. But if there was no beginning, how then can there be an end?


I was not too surprised to see that almost 70% of those taking the survey believe there is something out there. For me it is a comfort to realize that even though this place appears to be in a terrible disarray from our use, it still looks pretty good from where I sit. I suppose it is very good for me that I am able to wonder like I do. I know that where I am and who I am is mostly the product of choices I have made. No matter what I have or have not done in the past I would end up right here, right now, typing on this laptop.

I could not believe otherwise.