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The Astronomers

My salutations and congratulations are owing to the world astronomers. What a bunch of politician/scientists they are.

Astronomers. There is no group I know of that works together so well to extract massive funding from their respective governments.  It seems that "we" are tremendously interested in events that
may occur, have not occurred, and the consequences of which are so remote in time, we should scarcely be in touch or concerned with them.  Yet, they achieve funding way out of proportion to their numbers and impact.

They are masters of  imagery, animations, and purveyors of fear.  Cosmological demogogues are they!   Do you know what a gamma ray beam from an exploding star means to us?  Or a neutron star exploding every 100 million years? Or very own sun going supernova?  There are limitless shows on TV of what this means.  Most, probably all, of this is absolutely beyond our intervention.

Indeed, our own sun will become so hot in the next several hundreds of millions of years, that it will evaporate our oceans.  Because of popular movies, we seem to be obsessed with the possibility of a meteor impacting earth: tidal waves, earthquakes, atmospheric blockage of light - all that stuff. 

Did I mention SETI and our search for extraterrestial life?  Well, that's not astronomers, technically.  Maybe we've all been watching too many sci-fi movies.
I really do think we have other chores ahead of us beforehand.  :)  Are we looking for a challenge that will bring us together?

People are shocked at what may happen in the universe immeasurably distant into the future, but seem unconcerned at current worldly events such as the consequences of weather and war.

There is a certain fascination I don't quite understand.  Is it the tantalizing possibility of total doom with extreme low probability?  Don't know. Never ceasing to be amazed am I.

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