Friday, 20 September 2013

Anyone feeling homesick lately?

Remember all those times when you look up at night and see the arm of the Milky Way scattering light years across the sky and think 'I'm sure that's wonky.' Yeah me too. Well it turns out there is a reason why the thing isn't straight. (it's meant to be straight by the way).



The reason is our little solar system isn't actually of this galaxy. The Milky Way is our adopted galaxy, our parent galaxy is called the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. We are currently at the end of a 2 billion year feasting session concerning the monster Milky and our little parent collection of stars. In the below linked article it goes on to say that eventually we'll be fully assimilated into our new galaxy. ( I wish there was another word for galaxy but I can't spell thesauruas properly.)* It says that this current process could be the cause of global warming and we'll see in the future a rise in all energy types.

 This is my favourite part because there is nothing that pleases me more that fucking with global-warmingists. The theory says that because the Milky Way is so much larger then the Sagittarius and has much more mass, energy and heat, our little planet is simply adopting all this, which is the increase for our global temperature. Of course there is counter arguments to it and I'm not saying I believe it, but wouldn't it funny?? No longer would we have to have 58473 different wheely bins because fuck it 7 billion can't change the mind of a galaxy 621,371,189,999,999,400 miles long.

Another thought occurs to me: In school or when we've seen things on tele about stars and what not no one has said 'Oh by the way that big thing in the sky isn't meant to be like that.' Wouldn't have that been a little interesting, that mystery that the biggest concentration of stars in the sky isn't as it should be. As if God had a party while his wife was away, messed the place up and put everything not quiet back to where it should be. Then when she came home just pretended like nothing happened. What else isn't as it should be? Is the sun actually meant to be pink or is gravity actually supposed to be visible?

Where did I put Debra's tea-towels?


The questions are never ending just like the never ending job of science. Maybe they don't bring these things up because they don't like saying 'Yeah we don't know why these things happen.' Who would pay a doctor to say 'I don't know why he's bleeding' or a builder to say 'I don't know why the buildings slanted maybe it's from another fucking Galaxy!'

*Obviously I could've typed it into google and it would've popped up anyway, but it wouldn't have been hilarious then would it!

For further reading:
Original Article
http://www.viewzone2.com/milkywayx.html



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