[lit-ideas] Re: Andromeda rushing our way
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:12:55 -0600
To quote that perfect movie, as Jeff Goldbloom says in /Jurassic Park/,
"Life will find a way."
We keep trying to send ourselves into space somewhere else, trying to
expand homo sapiens into planets where we have never had a home.
Instead, we should try to send smaller bits of life toward planets that
don't have any, spreading the biology rather than the species.
Humans may not hope for immortality, but given enough places, life may
live as long as the universe, at least, each new place creating
just what it needs there to keep that part spinning until life can spin
off somewhere else. Species immortality may be an impossible
dream, but life's immortality makes the trip at least an interesting
one. We might have enough time for this, at least.
Lawrence Helm wrote:
Andromeda is rushing toward us
Like an assassin's bullet
And will wrench into fragments
Any thoughts of how it used to be
On the roller coaster, say, by the sea
Looking out at waves coming in
At only a fraction of the speed.
We have been warned by
Pestering meteors, comets,
And our pock-marked moon,
But looking out we can't see
Them with our naked eye,
The pathological damage,
And so believe in a peace
That in our time shall prevail
A wonderful mystical state,
And though it has never been
It is our belief -- even though
Someone this very instant is planting
An IED for our unsuspecting feet:
And will spin them off in flashes of light.
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