GOOD IN THEMSELVES

 

The Coma Cluster of galaxies from the Astronomy Picture of the Day Courtesy of the Misti Mountain Observatory.

I did something unusual today. I hid an entry from a group on FB. An entry I agreed with. The comments were heading to the Twilight Zone and frankly I didn't want to see that crap on my page. I resisted the temptation to enter the fray myself. Figuared it wouldn't do a damn bit of good. Did like the graphic though. Went on the group page an it wss gone. The mods probably pulled it when it got name calling or heading into politics. 

The original post had a graphic of an astronaut looking out into the wonders of the universe. The beauty of it. The fact that it exists and when you realize the immensity and the incomprensible age of it all our agrumnets and hostitlity towards each really doesn't amout to much. Of the gist of it all anyway. 

Well somebody had to open his pie hole. All those wasted planets. All that wasted energy those stars blasing into space had no value becuase humans couldn't exploit it. Honestly I'm not sure if he really meant what he was saying or if he was being sarcastic. 

I'm not sure how to phrase this. Creation is good in itself. The stars, the galsxies, the trees, the rivers do not require a price tag to make give them value. This world and everything on it would not exist without the "wasted" energy of the stars. The elements that make up this world and every starfish, microbe, fish, leopard, human were cooked in the stars or created when the star went nova, blew itself apart and seeded interstellar space with elements from carbon to uranium. 

Back in the sixties SouthernCalifornia was looking north with their high beams focussed on the Columbia River. All that fresh water pouring into the Pacific. Just wasted. Why not build a pipeline from the Columbia, south.Fortunately there were two senators from Washington with the seniority and the clout to get legislation passed the put the Columbia out of reach for the forseeable future. 

The rivers don't need humans to put a price on them, They have value as threads in the cloak of creation. Pull those thread and the cloak is in danger of unraveling.