Don’t worry, be happy
The last words I had with my other half this morning as she left for work were cross ones. It’s raining, the school run beckons, and I don’t have the car today. The youngest has a stomach pain and I don’t think she’s faking it. The new puppy keeps crapping in the most inappropriate places. I’ve blocked the toilet with puppy crap and kitchen paper.
And the galaxy is hurtling - being dragged - towards an unknown dark structure beyond the edge of the visible universe at a rate of two million miles an hour.
Cheers.
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 8:15 am
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‘And the galaxy is hurtling - being dragged - towards an unknown dark structure beyond the edge of the visible universe at a rate of two million miles an hour.’
Best enjoy the blocked toilet etc while you can then !
Having just read the NatGeo article, I think I may go to the pub for lunch … and the rest of the afternoon … and maybe the evening …
As fascinating as the subject is, contemplation of the universe tends to make me feel decidedly queasy. It’s like the feeling I had at Mass as a child when the priest talked about ‘eternal life’, ‘life without end’ and ‘for ever and ever’. Scared the shit out of me. Although, I must admit that as I get older it’s not as scary as the thought of my eventual extinction
Still, if I must go why not take the rest of you 6 billion buggers with me?
Or replace them with cats.
I never bought the idea that there was bugger all outside our universe anyway. Our universe has to be *somewhere*.
Hey, here’s a thought. Maybe the Unkown Structure is heaven or hell.
Nah, didn’t think so.
The Total Perspective Vortex beckons.
Two million miles an hour is hardly “hurtling”. In cosmic terms, it’s probably about the speed at which the mind of a celestial Geoff Hoon might get from ill-formulated proposition to inevitable non sequitur.
Brooklyn is not expanding
Blocking the drains with kitchen paper is punishment for knowing that the world is full of stupid people.
You think THAT’S depressing?
‘X Factor fans have expressed their anger at Saturday night’s result, which saw Laura White voted off the show. …Culture Secretary Andy Burnham even raised the issue in Parliament…’
Puppy poo doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?
2 million mph, over interstellar distances, is like worrying about continental drift.
Further, this is surely better than the previous theory - where all the galaxies just drift apart in an expanding universe, so that even future hyper-technological cultures might be able to see much less of the sky than we do, and this goes on until heat death.
If the universe is far stranger than we knew, that’s probably a good thing.
Also, it’s reality - the stuff that’s still there when you stop believing in it. It’s what we stand for. Language of priorities, religion of socialism.