As always in these polar regions, the sun hangs low, barely above the craggy lunar horizon. You adjust your visor. It amazes you how bright a low sun can be when there's no atmosphere to dim it.
Suddenly, the lights go out.
Up in the sky, a big black disk covers the sun. A red "ring of fire" appears where the sun was only moments before, and its glow turns the ground red beneath your feet.
You've been waiting for this. It's an eclipse.
Astronauts on the moon are going to experience eclipses typically once or twice a year: Earth glides in front of the sun turning lunar day into a strange kind of ruddy night. It'll be one of the highlights of any lunar tour.
The charm of the eclipse comes from Earth. Our planet is big enough by a factor of three to block the entire sun but, curiously, this doesn't cause complete darkness. Rays of sunlight bend around the edge of Earth, filtering through the atmosphere. As seen from the moon, the edge of Earth lights up like a sunset-red ring of fire—one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system." http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12feb_lunareclipse.htm
so i read that. and i thought, damn. think of how that works. just think of being so far away out in space or something that you could see all of it happen. then think of how far away you really are. now think of us and how small we are, like ants, or something. imagine ants like, staring up at the most beautiful thing in the solar system, and in a couple seconds, bam, it was a magnifying glass. except not that gruesome...but think of how we wouldnt even know, because theyre just so small. like...shit. damn.
and then i saw this.
and i thought maybe that because africa, right smack in the middle of the east coast of china and the west coast of america, got the most of the lunar eclipse...well, if thats every year, then that means that africa, at some point twice every year, which there have now been millenniums of, its completely blocked out from the moon and completely exposed to the sun for most of a day. because if that night, the moon is smack on the opposite side of the sun and africas right under the moon, then that day, and most of the days around that time, africa was on the other side and the moon was pulling straight on the ocean. right?
well, taking all of that into consideration, its a fact that the moon pulls on the oceans and thats what the tides and shit are? and isnt it pretty well known that plants and pretty much anything living and rooted to the ground grows towards the sun? and so you can kind of assume that most life does something of that caliber, whether consciously or unconsciously. (very unconsciously) (which may be coincidence or not even thought of by us or anything cuz we're just that small)
so completely tossing the pangea concept and the thought of any kind of mass starting out in one place and taking the idea that it was pretty rocky and barren and then water came (which was probably the result of condensation, if nothing else...if it works here it probably works everywhere else too, right? so think about how small we are again, and our big fat momma earth) and land mass was pretty spread out.
well maybe whoever it was decided that we came from one spot overshot when written history and astronomy crossed paths, and figured we were moving away from one spot, when maybe we've actually been moving towards another spot on the other side of the big sphere. are you getting where im coming from?
maybe the land we're on is growing towards the sun and the water is being pulled towards the moon. and maybe those two days a year when the suns completely exposed to the earth and the moons pulling on the other side of the earth in a straight line, pulling right on its center of gravity. pulling on what? water? so then its like a giant spherical centrifuge with some water and dirt on the outside of it, and its spinning around in a circle, going pretty fast for how big it is.
what do you think would happen if you had something like that? that you could hold in your hand or at least somehow suspend in the space in front of you and turn off gravity, you get my point. well, i imagine if you got it spinning fast enough (which i guess wouldnt have to be that fast at all if there was no gravity) the water and the dirt would just separate and one would go to one side and one would go to the other. so then what do you think would happen if you could get it to spin around you? the heavier one would not only be drawn to the point of wherever its spinning from but the planets are so big that you have to remember they gravitate towards each other. right? i mean, im pretty sure thats been proven. so i imagine the dirt would eventually come in towards you and the water would seperate onto the other side. now throw in a magnet that spins around your little earth toy and think about what it would do. like, this doesnt even have to include the fact that we we've been blown outwards from somewhere very far away, and cuz theres no gravity, we're still goin pretty fast, i bet. so however the earth came into orbit around the sun, and the moon came into orbit around the sun, it was pretty rough and we're just now stabilizing enough to produce living conditions. this is just on a straight horizontal orbit around you. simple enough.
so anyway, think about what would happen to your earth toy with a moon toy thrown in, itself spinning, orbiting around it like a magnet suspended in zero gravity would do. the water would be getting pulled towards it because its not as heavy as the rock. the water isnt orbiting the sun - the rock is. the waters on the rock. and the moons pulling it in crazy directions like the moons orbit around the earth is, and think of how much and how (relatively) fast its been doing it if it does that every lunar cycle? how often is that, a rough month? thats 12 every year - which there have now been millenniums of. its not mixing the earth toy, its pulling on the condensation that formed on it after you let it into orbit. right? the oceans. going around in circles around it. it all came in the manual, but who reads those? so im reminding you.
we cant do that. all we would be able to do is mix it. so its probably doing some kind of shaking, and doing a hell of a lot of it.
and what if it really is a magnet and not just a big chunk of rock? i mean, magnets are eventually made out of rocks, right? we seem to have a lot of that in our old mother earth. so the moon probably has something like that too. we might or might not know or ever know what it was, for that matter. so thats probably playing its part.
but anyway. so thats pretty much what the earth is doing around the sun, right? almost. have you ever seen a real gyroscope, right in front of you? that shit is fucking crazy. we're spinning, while orbiting. and so is the moon. that isnt even the cause of why its acting like its in zero gravity, its because there is no gravity. thats cool to think about. but anyway, we still are orbiting the sun, and whether or not we're spinning (and thats probably whats keeping us there (or maybe its simnply because we're there orbiting?))
so the lands being pulled towards the sun in our orbit, and the waters being shaken up and stirred around by the pull from the moon. right? well then those two days a year, the moon is completely pulling as hard as it can on the water and not only is the sun pulling on the dirt, but the life growing on the dirt is growing out towards the sun, each and every blade of grass pulling that one extra bit towards the sun...
so then i thought thats probably why africas pretty much being burned, or at least relatively browned, by the sun, and more than on the other side. but then i thought...oh, shit. what if thats whats happening? the land is separating from the water and that means eventually its all going to bubble in one place, and the land...is all going to crash together. or maybe it's growing together, and that explains why it looks like we could have broken off. or maybe its because all the waters going into one place, in the oceans, in the clouds, being pulled to that point on the other side of the earth, the side thats being pulled away from the sun. maybe THATS why we're spinning. maybe thats why the moon is spinning, too - its right where we are, at the point where the range of temperatures is perfect conditions for the rock to sweat out some water.
so then i thought maybe global warming is just a misconception, and the water level IS getting lower in one place, but its getting higher in another. or maybe the suns pulling on the water just enough towards the center of orbit, that at that point in between swings on the big ellipse when the earth is closest to the sun, the waters being pulled on by the sun just enough to keep it from completely separating from land into a bubble or hemisphere of its own,if theres that much of it, and on the outside of those big swings, where the force of the swing has the greatest effect and its pulling away from the sun, its just enough to keep the water from going completely to the other side.
but anyway. i was just thinking that. then i started thinking about the ant thing again and about how we kill them real easy with a piece of glass in a frame. and then we think of ourselves as ants sometimes - im not the first, in case you were, for some reason, misled. scary, though, huh? i dont wanna get fried by planet hoppers using these things like stepping stones. then i thought of how fucking much that really must happen - if the universe is infinite, and there are other conditions like this, perfect climates, there are some probably smaller and some a lot bigger than ours, more primitive and more advanced, and how random it must be for them to come a long and step on (to them) a colony of ants like us? seems unfair...we would really have no say in it, except to claim that hey, we got this far. no fair! and then, you realize you were playing a game you didnt agree to play in, you made a gamble without your personal consent. sorry.
then i thought, wow. that fuckin sucks.
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