Such Frail creatures we are...

We are such pompous creatures to think that we can survive anything that comes our way. I had a discussion with some people yesterday about Comets and Asteroids. After explaining things to them, they just came back with the standard Movie Answer. Just send up a space shuttle with explosives and blow it up. Or even better, just send some of our nuclear missiles to intercept it.

The Shuttle can't escape earths gravity. Nuclear missiles can't escape earths Orbit either. Plus, if we sent something like this up with current technology, it would be way to late to change the path of any large moving object from hitting us.

So the conversation ended with them accusing me of being a doom and gloom person when it comes to saving the human race from extinction. That is if we found a large asteroid heading to us with less than three months notice. But to be truthful, it is just plain truth, that we wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. Which brings me to a point. We are frail creatures on this planet and on the grandiose scale of the cosmos, it makes us smaller than an atom in a beach of Sand. :)

But back to reality. I am on this planet and will enjoy it as best I can. Not letting these types of things run my life or make me live in fear since I enjoy life as long as it lasts.

Today started with a BANG

I get to work and while I am driving to the front of the building I see a whole bunch of trucks and cars outside. Hmmm... I think to myself, what could be going on. So I go on my way and park in my assigned spot and start my trek into the main offices.

I get to the front door and I see trash everywhere. hmm... I think to myself again...what could be going on. Then I smell Smoke or what I should say is left over from a fire that happened. Turns out someone left a candle burning which then caught some things on fire. So now there is soot everywhere and it smells like a campfire in our offices.

Such is life in the big city.