National Wormhole Week - Space Travel

Genesis 1:8 - And God called the firmament Heaven.  And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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 I'm sure some folks are wondering why I've included a Bible verse at the beginning of my Wormfest posts.  Since I'm not a fantastically scientific or techie type person, I thought the idea of what happened day by day in "Creation Week" would provide a framework from which I could approach this new project.

So since on day 2, the heavens were created, mankind's attempts to conquer (or at least to interact with) the sky seemed an appropriate topic.  Think how much air travel has changed our lives.  We can travel back and forth across the globe in a day, a journey which used to take weeks or months.

But then, what was supposed to be a boon for transportation could also be used as a weapon of terror.

Since that time, we have been into outer space.  Men have walked on the moon and brought back some of its rocks to the earth.  We've seen pictures from Mars and from the outer reaches of our galaxy.

Of course, you run into the problem with human space travel, that some of these places take a long, LONG time to reach.  We're talking years.  It seems like every time we make one "giant leap", we find out how exponentially MORE there is to know, learn or experience.

But space travel has been used by governments to seed the skies with satellites to spy on other countries, and on their own citizens.  What could be used to advance humankind is being used to control it, or to attempt to control it, or to maintain the status quo.

Wow...I'm not usually so "dark" in my thoughts.  So maybe I'll stop there and end with another quote:

"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." (Hamlet, IIii)

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Genesis 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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(This post is an entry for the 2014 Second Annual National Wormhole Week, where bloggers from all over wax lyrical about living in worlds different from the one to which we are used.  Click the button above for more!)

Imagine if you will, a world in which electric light and power had ceased to exist.  You wouldn't be reading this right now for one.  I wouldn't be writing this right now (well, your now is my then...or something like that).

We'd be spending a great deal of our time at the lower end of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - securing food, water and shelter.  No more zipping through the drive-through for kids' meals when you are running late, and you probably would be running because none of the computers in today's cars would work.

Also, I wouldn't be here for another reason.  I nearly died during the delivery of my first child.  I saw a video of me the day after the delivery and I looked like the Michelin Man's Mama.  (At the time, DS1 looked like a little conehead.)

It just occurred to me that someone could write a book entitled "14,000 Things Ways Your Life Would Change Without Electricity".  Although they would have to do it before the electricity runs out because otherwise there would probably only be one copy (due to all the handwriting) and it would cost a boatload full of money.)

So, tell me, what would YOU miss the most?  Share in the comments!

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Do Worms Feel Pressure?

      


DO YOU THINK YOU HANDLE PRESSURE WELL OR DO YOU USUALLY FALL APART? I usually bear up well in crisis situations.  Afterwards, I collapse.  It reminds me of when I used to ski in Utah.  I could ski from the time the lift opened in the morning and race down the mountain trying to get 'just one more run' in before dark and feel great.  But when we went to the car, sat down and took off the ski boots?  It was all over. When I worked for the city of Fort Worth, they had some sort of training conference where one of the workshops was on self defense, and presented by the police department.  One of the officers said something that sticks with me even today:  "You have to decide now what you are going to (or willing to) do in a crisis situation to defend yourself.  Because if you wait to decide until in the crisis, it will be exponentially more difficult to do." *+*+*+*+* 2014 Wormfest!

Kicking off Wormfest week will be the release of Stephen’s third book in the Chase Manhattan trilogy, Escalation.  2014 National Wormhole Week: Name one thing where science advances mankind, and one where technology will go too far and set us back. They can be the same thing or different.  Example: De-extinction or bringing back extinction species through backbreeding, genetic engineering, and cloning. With all the breakthrough discoveries mankind is on the cusp of, are we playing God?  Where do you see science moving us forward and where do you see it moving us back? Feel free to quote a movie. (Jurassic Park is a great example.) Join us below for Wormfest!  If the linky code doesn't show up, just click on the button and go sign up!