Sept 2012
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full Moon.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time.
For full story:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/37/image/a/
I think it's very important, especially after a presidential election, to focus on the bigger picture from time to time. We get so wrapped up in our supposedly bigger than life daily moments, that we tend to forget simple details like the Universe is 14 BILLION years old and is continuing to expand at a rate that we simply cannot comprehend. Our Milky Way galaxy has 200 BILLION stars and there are BILLIONS of other galaxies....which puts my 180 pounds physical mass at the very small end of the rotation. Thank God for nanotechnology.......I feel like the biggest blob in the universe when I start looking at quantum reality.....but it's hard to stay in that environment just like it's extremely hard to contemplate infinity for longer than a minute or two.
We have so many issues that are confronting us as a society....and by society I am referring to the ruling species on the planet.....human beings.
It's just like the Universe vs Quantum reality
BIG and small
The big picture includes planetary stability
The little picture includes economic stability for our government.
Unless we learn how to be creative job creators
and somehow reign in the PENSION fiasco's that is threatening every city and state in the Union....we will continue to face economic hardships.
FROM THE DEEPEST VIEW EVER ASSEMBLED OF THE UNIVERSE TO PENSION REFORM.....IT'S ALL PART OF THE SAME PICTURE
Some things we have absolutely no control over
SOME THINGS WE HAVE CREATED
Allowing Government Pensions to be 90% of salaries with life long medical coverage for the family is simply
LUDICROUS
THINKING THAT HUMAN BEINGS CAN STOP THE UNIVERSE FROM EXPANDING IS SIMPLY
LUDICROUS
WHY WOULD YOU?
WHY WOULD POLITICIANS GRANT PENSIONS THAT GIVE RETIRED PEOPLE 90% OF THEIR SALARIES WITH LIFETIME FAMILY MEDICAL COVERAGE?
How do we get those people to reduce their pensions to a reasonable number.....such as 60%?
I think we put them in a large room with pictures from the Hubble Telescope and explain how everything works....and then simply explain why somethings
BREAK
WE CAN FIX THE PROBLEMS
BUT
WE
NEED
PEOPLE
TO
UNDERSTAND
THE
PROBLEMS
AND
HOW
THEY
DEVELOPED
Human beings are most likely just using the Earth for a few million years and then either moving on or.........or.....or.......
The reality is that while entrenched on this beautiful sphere we should be doing everything to make the life experience
a
beautiful experience
Details dictate that economics plays a role in that experience.
Details dictate that love plays a role in that experience.
Details dictate that common sense and creativity play roles in that experience.
WE NEED TO ALTER SOME DETAILS WITHIN OUR POLITICAL STRUCTURE
SOMEWHERE
SOMEHOW
SOMEONE
OR
EVERYONE
IS
GOING TO ALTER
SOMETHING
The sooner we repair, the less we will have to alter.
and now I've got to get off the altar and back into the deepest ever picture of the Universe
Hopefully you followed me up and down and then back up again.
It's a crazy time in a crazy world but it can be fixed and it can work better
for
everyone
everywhere
because
the universe is perfect
all the time
sometimes.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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