- 30 weeks of something different blog intro
- something different week 1: our world
- something different week 2: memory
- something different week 3: flying
- something different week 4: not alone
- something different week 5: night sky
- something different week 6: listen to your body
- something different week 7: do something different
- something different week 8: a different world
- something different week 9: creation
- something different week 10: the land of the different
- something different week 11: power of creation
- something different week 12: 1,000 years more
- something different week 13: freedom
- something different week 14: let go
- something different week 15: enslaved
- something different week 16: your existence
- photo: a river runs through it
- something different week 17: a truth
- something different week 18: a walk
- something different week 19: one night
- something different week 20: turn off time
- something different week 21: nature
- something different week 22: stop watching
- something different week 23: telling the story of another’s life
- something different week 24: men and women…imagine this…
- something different week 25: back to the past
- something different week 26: an animal
- something different week 27: what if…
- something different week 28: minimize
- something different week 29: cooking
- something different week 30: local library
Go outside on a cloudless night and count as many stars as you can in 2 minutes. Those stars are nothing more than what we call the sun in our solar system. Suns of different sizes and distances.
Remember the amount of stars you counted.
Sixty minutes divided by 2 is 30. Calculate 30 times the amount of stars you counted in that 2 minutes. That is the approximate amount of stars you would have counted, given a steady rate of counting, had you counted for one hour.
Share that number with me.
Now consider that those are only the stars (or suns) visible to the eyes. Imagine further that each one of those suns has 9 planets rotating around them. Of course, there could be less planets, or much more depending on the size of the sun, or other factors we have yet to detect or intellectually consider.
Imagine that only one of those planets within each sun system contains life. It is possible that all planets within any given sun system could house life.
What thoughts come to mind when you consider this possibility?
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